Richard Snyder joins UCI Department of Classics

Department: Classics

Post Date: October 16, 2017

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UCI's Department of Classics welcomes Richard Snyder as the newest member of our distinguished faculty!

Rick Snyder received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, where he studied ancient and contemporary literatures, with a focus on the social and historical dimensions of poetic production and reception. His research interests include Latin poetry, epic tradition, modern poetry, biopolitics, aesthetic theory. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in such journals as Aufgabe, Jacket, jubilat, LIT, and Radical Society.

This quarter Professor Snyder is teaching Humanities Core and upper-division Latin.