Andrew Becker

• 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.