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Andrew Becker

Andrew Becker, Associate Professor of Latin and Ancient Greek Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Andrew Becker
Andrew Becker, Associate Professor of Latin and Ancient Greek Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
337 Major Williams Hall 
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-5361 | abecker@vt.edu

Andrew Becker is an associate professor of Latin and Ancient Greek Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures.

  • Poetry, ancient and modern
  • Latin Language, Literatures, & Cultures
  • Ancient Greek Language, Literatures, & Cultures
  • Education abroad
  • Rome & the shaping of Europe
  • PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • BA/MA, Cambridge University (UK)
  • BA, University of Michigan
  • Awards Committee, Classical Association of the Middle, West, and South
  • Award Chair, Classical Association of Virginia
  • National Academic Advising Association Award for Faculty Academic Advising
  • Alumni Award for Excellence in International Education
  • Wine Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • Poetry, ancient and modern
  • Latin Language, Literatures, & Cultures
  • Ancient Greek Language, Literatures, & Cultures
  • Education abroad
  • Rome & the shaping of Europe

Books

The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ecphrasis (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Rowman & Littlefield, 1995).

Journal Articles

"What’s Latin about Latin Versification or Why Asclepiads Aren’t Boring: A Case Study of Accent and Meter in Horatian Lyric." Forthcoming in American Journal of Philology (55 pp. in ms.)

“Rhythm in a Sinuous Stanza: The Anatomy and Acoustic Contour of the Latin Alcaic.” American Journal of Philology 133.1 (2012) 117-152.

“Listening to Lyric: Accent and Ictus in the Latin Sapphic Stanza.’ Classical World 103 (2010) 159-182.

"Non oculis sed auribus: the Ancient Schoolroom and Learning to Hear the Latin Hexameter." The Classical Journal 99 (2004) 313-322.

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