Eric Adler, Assistant Professor of Classics, Connecticut College

Education
B.A., Connecticut College;
M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo;
Ph.D., Duke University

"As scholars and teachers, we have a duty to fight against our own positions." - Philip Rieff

Eric Adler
Assistant Professor of Classics
On sabbatical Spring 2012

Joined Connecticut College: 2007

Specialization:

Greek and Roman historiography
Latin and Greek prose
Roman imperialism
The classical tradition

Eric Adler teaches a variety of courses in Latin and Greek, as well as classes on Greco-Roman history and civilization. He enjoys teaching at Connecticut College because its small class sizes and high regard for the liberal arts allow for an intense - and fun - intellectual environment.

Adler is currently working on, inter alia, a book tentatively titled "Classics and the Culture Wars," which analyzes the academic feuds of the 1980s and 1990s and their effects on the study of Greco-Roman antiquity in the United States.

Selected publications by Eric Adler include:

- Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography, (University of Texas Press, 2011)

-"Cassius Dio's Livia and the Conspiracy of Cinna Magnus." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 51 (2011): 133-154.

- "Post-9/11 Views of Rome and the Nature of 'Defensive Imperialism.' " International Journal of the Classical Tradition 15.4 (2008): 587-610.

-“Late Victorian and Edwardian Views of Rome and the Nature of ‘Defensive Imperialism.’” International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 15.2 (2008): 187-216.

-“Boudica’s Speeches in Tacitus and Dio.” Classical World 101.2 (2008): 173-195.

-“Who’s Anti-Roman? Sallust and Pompeius Trogus on Mithridates.” Classical Journal 101.4 (2006): 383-407.

-“Are We All Post-Culturalists Now?,” a Review of Christopher Clausen’s Faded Mosaic: The Emergence of Post-Cultural America. Partisan Review 68.4 (Fall 2001): 658-661.