The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Joseph Michael Pucci

Joseph Pucci has research interests in late antiquity, late Latin, medieval Latin, and comparative literary history with a focus on literary allusion and poetic genres. He also has interests in biography as a literary form (and as practitioner) and in literature and the American presidency.

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Joseph Pucci is Associate Professor of Classics and in the Program in Medieval Studies and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown, where he teaches courses on classical and medieval Latin, versions of literary selfhood in late antique and early medieval literature, and the transition from the late antique to the medieval. He has published nearly 60 articles, book chapters, and book reviews on Latin literary culture, and is the author of Venantius Fortunatus: Poems To Friends, A Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Hackett, 2010); The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition (Yale, 1998) and reviser of K. P. Harrington, Medieval Latin, Second Edition (Chicago, 1997). A new book, Recuperating Virgil: Reading the Ancients in Augustine's Confessions is now complete.

Interests: Late Antiquity; Late Latin; Medieval Latin; Comparative Literary History; Biography; Literature and the American Presidency

Books: Medieval Latin, Second Edition (Chicago, 1997); The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition (1998); Venantius Fortunatus: Poems To Friends, A Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Hackett, 2010).

In Progress: a commentary on the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus; an interpretation of Ausonius' poetry; a translation of the poetry of Alcuin; a biography of Alcuin; a biography of James Buchanan.

Contributor (many articles and book reviews): Arethusa, Classica et Medievalia, Classical Bulletin, Classical Outlook, Classical Philology, Classical Review, Classical World, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Journal of Medieval Latin, Latomus, New England Classical Journal, Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Ramus, Speculum, Virgil Encylcopedia.

Awards: Karen T. Romer Award for Undergraduate Advising and Mentoring, 2004; John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities (1996); Award for Outstanding Academic Advising (1998, 1999, 2001).

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JOSEPH MICHAEL PUCCI
Associate Professor of Classics and in the Program in Medieval Studies and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Classics, Comparative Literature
Phone: +1 401 863 2958
Phone 2: +1 401 863 1267
E-mail: Joseph_Pucci@brown.edu

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