Dennis Trout
Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D., Duke
Interests: Late Antiquity, Paulinus of Nola
Contact: troutd@missouri.edu
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I have been a member of the department since the fall of 2000. After receiving my PhD from Duke University in 1989, I moved directly from North Carolina to Boston, where I was Assistant and then Associate professor in the Tufts Classics Department (with one year as a Mellon Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Harvard). I am primarily interested in the history and literature of Late Antiquity and am a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Early Christian Studies. I participate regularly in the quadrennial conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford and in the biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity series that is underway on this side of the Atlantic
My principal publication is Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). At the moment I am working on Latin epigraphic poetry of the fourth and fifth centuries, giving special attention to the poems of Damasus, bishop of Rome from 366 to 384. With the help of an NEH Fellowship for 2002-03, I hope to move this project closer to its first stage of completion. At Tufts I taught a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses in history and literature. Here I have had opportunities to test-run courses on Latin Epigraphy and Roman Topography.
Since arriving I have published a number of book reviews as well as: "The Verse Epitaph(s) of Petronius Probus: Competitive Commemoration in Late-Fourth-Century Rome," in the New England Classical Journal 28 (2001) 157-176; and "Lex and Iussio: The Feriale Campanum and Christianity in the Theodosian Age," in Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity, edited by R. Mathisen (Oxford 2001) 162-78.
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