Joseph Michael Pucci
Associate Professor of Classics and in the Program in Medieval Studies and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Concentration Advisor:
Macfarlane House 208
Phone: +1 401 863 2958
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Joseph_Pucci@brown.edu
Joseph Pucci has research interests in late antiquity, late Latin, medieval Latin, and comparative literary history with a focus on literary allusion, ancient education, and poetic genres. He also has interests in biography as a literary form (and as practitioner) and in literature and the American presidency.
Biography
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 40 articles, book chapters, and book reviews on Latin literary culture, and is the author of The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition (Yale, 1998) and revisor of K. P. Harrington, Medieval Latin (Chicago, 1997). A translation of the personal poetry of Venantius Fortunatus is underway (Hackett, 2009) and a new book, Augustine's Ancient Affections: Literary Memory and the Making of Affect in the Confessions, is now complete.
Interests: Late Antiquity; Late Latin; Medieval Latin; Comparative Literary History; Biography; Literature and 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: an interpretation of Ausonius' poetry; a translation, commentary and interpretation (separate venues) of the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus; a biography of Alcuin; a biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Contributor (many articles and book reviews): Arethusa, Classica et Medievalia, Classical Outlook, Classical Philology, Classical World, Journal of Medieval Latin, Latomus, New England Classical Journal, Ramus, Speculum, Classical Review, Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages.
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).
Interests
He is a comparative literary historian with interests especially in ancient and medieval Latin poetry, though he also works in prose (Augustine, Alcuin, Anselm, Abelard). He has investigated the phenomenon of allusion in Western tradition and has just completed a historically grounded reading of Augustine's Confessions that takes cognizance of ancient reading and writing habits as a way to situate Augustine's meanings more firmly. Currently, he is under contract to translate about one hundred poems of the 6th century Latin poet, Venantius Fortunatus. As part of the project, he is writing a commentary on the poetry as well as assembling materials for an interpretive reading of the poems. In addition, he is finishing a comprehensive literary reading of the poetry of Ausonius. Usually, he is asked to write several book reviews per year.
Awards
- Karen T. Romer Award for Undergraduate Advising and Mentoring, Brown University, 2004
- Nominee, Book History Prize for The Full-Knowing Reader, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publication (SHARP), 1999
- Award for Outstanding Academic Advising, Brown University, 1998, 1999, 2001
- John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities, Brown University, 1996
Affiliations
Medieval Latin Association of North America
American Philological Association
Medieval Academy of America
Medieval Latin Studies Group
Classical Association of New England
Modern Language Association
Funded Research
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