Joseph Pucci is Professor of Classics and in the Program in Medieval Studies at Brown, where he teaches courses on classical, later and medieval Latin language and literature, literary selfhood in late antique and medieval literature, the western tradition, and reception studies. He has published over 70 articles, book chapters, and book reviews on Latin literary culture, and is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of eight books: Prudentius: Peristephanon, trans. Len Krisak, with Introduction and Notes by Joseph Pucci (Routledge, 2019); Ausonius: The Moselle, the Epigrams and Other Poems, trans. Deborah Warren, with Introduction and Notes by Joseph Pucci (Routledge, 2017); The Classics Renewed: Reception and Innovation in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity, co-edited with Scott McGill (Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016); Augustine's Virgilian Retreat: Reading the Auctores at Cassiciacum (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014); 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; paperback version, 2012); and the second edition of K. P. Harrington, Medieval Latin (Chicago, 1997). The Poetry of Alcuin of York: a Translation with Introduction and Commentary, is forthcoming in 2023 from Routledge; a ninth book, Recuperating Virgil: Reading the Auctores in Augustine's Confessions, is being revised.
Interests: Late Antiquity; Late Latin; Medieval Latin; Comparative Literary History; Biography; Literature and the American Presidency; the western tradition.
Books: Medieval Latin, Second Edition (Chicago, 1997); The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition (1998; paperback, 2012); Venantius Fortunatus: Poems To Friends, A Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Hackett, 2010); Augustine's Virgilian Retreat: Reading the Auctores at Cassiciacum (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014); The Classics Renewed: Reception and Innovation in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity, co-edited with Scott McGill (Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016); Ausonius: The Moselle, the Epigrams and Other Poems, trans. Deborah Warren with Introduction and Notes by Joseph Pucci (Routledge, 2017); Prudentius: Peristephanon, trans. Len Krisak, with Introduction and Notes by Joseph Pucci (Routledge, 2019); The Poetry of Alcuin of York: a Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Routledge, forthcoming, 2023).
In Progress: Recuperating Virgil: Reading the Auctores in Augustine's Confessions (drafted); a study of Lincoln's use of scripture (partially drafted).
Contributor (many articles and book reviews): Arethusa, Classica et Medievalia, Classical Bulletin, Classical Outlook, Classical Philology, Classical Review, Classical World, Comparative Literature Studies, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Information and Culture, Journal of Medieval Latin, Latomus, The Medieval Review, New England Classical Journal, Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Ramus, Revista da Associaçao Brasileira de Estudos Medievais, Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften, Speculum, Virgil Encylcopedia, Blackwell Companion to Late Antique Litertature.
Awards: Comfort and Urry Award for Advising, Mentoring, and Motivation (2015); Princeton Review: One of the Top 300 Professors in the U.S., 2012; 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, Undergraduate Council of Students (1998, 1999, 2001; 2013).
