Joseph Pucci
Associate Professor of Classics and in the Program in Medieval Studies
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
[Joseph_Pucci@brown.edu]

Joseph Pucci earned an A.B. in history (with honors) at John Carroll University in 1979 then took an A. M. in medieval history (1982) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (1987), both from the University of Chicago.  He taught at Loyola, Chicago (1986-87); the University of Kentucky (1987-1989), holding a joint appointment in Honors and Classics; and since 1989 has been at Brown, rising from Visiting Assistant Professor (1989-1992) to Associate Professor (since 1997).  Prof. Pucci also holds appointments in the Program in Medieval Studies (since 1992) and in the Department of Comparative Literature (since 2002).  At Brown, he teaches widely in ancient and medieval Latin language and literature.  He has advised first and second year students since 1990 and has been concentration advisor in the Department of Classics since 1992.  He serves of various University committees, including those empanelled to select UTRA grants, Arnold Fellows, and Baker and Emery Fellows.  He is a member of the editorial board of the New England Classical Journal. 

Interests: Late Antiquity; Late Latin; Medieval Latin; Comparative Literary History; Biography; Ancient Education; The Founders and the Classics; the American Presidency

Books: Medieval Latin (Chicago, 1997); The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition (1998).

In Progress: Ancient Affective Diction and the Memory of Language in Augustine’s Confessions, in review at Oxford; The Personal Poems of Venantius Fortunatus: A Translation, contracted with Hackett; Ausonius and the Traditions of Ancient Latin Poetry, book length ms., a biography of Alcuin. 

Contributor (nearly 40 articles and book reviews): Arethusa, Classica et Medievalia, 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, Ramus, Speculum.

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).