Jean Alvares is Associate Professor and Chair at Montclair State University and works on the Greco-Roman novel as well as teaching with technology.
Graham Anderson is Emeritus Professor of Classics in the University of Kent. His work on ancient fiction includes Eros Sophistes (1982) and Folktale as a Source of Graeco-Roman Fiction (2007). He is currently involved in a study of kingship legend in antiquity.
Barry Baldwin is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Calgary and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His publications include Studies in Lucian (Hakkert, 1973), Studies in Aulus Gellius (Coronado Press, 1975), and Suetonius (A.M. Hakkert, 1983); anthologies of Byzantine poetry and later Latin literature (J.C. Gieben, 1985, 1987); three volumes of collected Greek, Roman, and Byzantine papers (J.C. Gieben, 1984, 1985, 1989); translations of the Philogelos (J.C. Gieben, 1983) and the Timarion (Wayne State Press, 1984); The Roman Emperors (Harvest House, 1980); and The Latin & Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson (Duckworth, 1995). He writes a monthly classical column for the Fortean Times (UK/USA), and contributes regularly to the Petronian Society Newsletter and to Vates (electronic journal of neo-Latin poetry).
Anton Bierl is Professor Ordinarius for Greek Literature at the University of Basel. He is the co-editor of the Gesamtkommentar zu Homers Ilias and the series editor for MythosEikonPoiesis. His main research interests include Homeric epic, drama, song and performance culture, and the ancient novel.
Kathryn S. Chew is Professor of Classics in the Department of Comparative Literature and Classics at California State University, Long Beach. Her research interests include ancient novels, early Christian literature, and Late Antique history. She has an article “Eyeing Epiphanies in Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit Texts” forthcoming from Phoenix.
Ellen D. Finkelpearl is Professor of Classics and the Helen Chandler Garland Chair in Ancient Studies at Scripps College. Her research interests and publications encompass the breadth of ancient novel studies with particular focus on Apuleius and the Metamorphoses. In addition to numerous book chapters and articles, she has published Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel (Ann Arbor, 1998) and “A Review of Scholarship on Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 1970–1998” (Lustrum, 42, 2000), with Carl Schlam, an annotated bibliography of over 500 items.
Stavros Frangoulidis is Professor of Latin at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has co-organized several RICAN conferences on the study of the Ancient Novel, and co-edited the proceedings thereof (published as Ancient Narrative Supplementa). He has edited a thematic issue on the ancient novel (with Stephen J. Harrison), and a volume on Latin genre (with Theodore D. Papanghelis and Stephen J. Harrison), both published in the Trends in Classics series (Walter de Gruyter). He has written a number of articles on Roman comedy, the Latin novel, and Senecan tragedy. Finally, he is the author of the following books: Handlung und Nebenhandlung: Theater, Metatheater und Gattungsbewusstein in der römischen Komödie (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1997); Roles and Performances in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2001); and Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches to Magic in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008).
Marília P. Futre Pinheiro is Professor of Classics at the University of Lisbon. She organized the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN IV) in July 2008. Her most recent publication is Mitos e Lendas da Grécia Antiga, 2011. She edited Fictional Traces: Receptions of the Ancient Novel (2011), ANS 14.1 and 14.2, with Stephen J. Harrison; Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel (2012); Trends in Classics (De Gruyter), with Marilyn B. Skinner and Froma I. Zeitlin; and The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections, 2012, ANS 16, with Judith Perkins and Richard Pervo, and Intende Lector–Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel, 2013, MythosEikonPoiesis, De Gruyter, with Anton Bierl and Roger Beck.
Giovanni Garbugino, Professor of Latin Literature at University of Genoa, has edited the annotated editions of Novus Aesopus by Alexander Neckam (Genoa, 1987), Bellum Iugurthinum (Milan, 1994), and Bellum Catilinae (Naples, 1998) by Sallust. Lately, his interests are centered on the Latin novel. His most recent publications are: Enigmi della “Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri” (Bologna, 2004), Studi sul romanzo latino (Alessandria, 2010), La storia di Apollonio re di Tiro, Introd., testo critico, traduzione e note (Alessandria, 2010), and La storia della distruzione di Troia. Introd., testo, traduzione e note (Alessandria, 2011).
Marco Genre has a master’s degree on the Greek Novel from the University of Milan. Since 2011, he has been teaching Italian in secondary school.
Timo Glaser is Subject Specialist for Theology at Marburg University Library. His research has focused on epistolary literature, ancient fiction and philosophy, and early Christian reception of Greco-Roman culture. His Ph.D. thesis dealt with the ancient epistolary novel and its reception in the New Testament: Paulus als Briefroman erzählt: Studien zum antiken Briefroman und seiner christlichen Rezeption in den Pastoralbriefen (Göttingen, 2009).
Luca Graverini teaches Latin literature in the University of Siena at Arezzo. He has published extensively on Apuleius and on the ancient novel. His Le Metamorfosi di Apuleio. Letteratura e identità (Pisa: Pacini, 2007) is being published in English translation by Ohio State University Press. More information at http://luca.graverini.com.
Judith P. Hallett is Professor of Classics and a Distinguished Scholar–Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has published widely in the areas of Latin language and literature; ancient Greek and Roman women, sexuality, and the family; and classical reception in the United States.
Judith Hindermann is Associate Lecturer in Classics at the University of Basel. Her research interests include the ancient novel, Roman elegy, the younger and elder Pliny, and the depiction of the emotions in ancient letters.
Heinz Hofmann was Professor of Latin at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) from 1982 to 1993, where between 1985 and 1993 he organized twice a year the colloquia on the novel. He edited nine volumes of the Groningen Colloquia on the Novel (1988 ff.) and Latin Fiction: The Latin Novel in Context (Routledge 1999). He is now Emeritus Professor of Latin at the University of Tübingen (Germany) and has published not only on Apuleius and the ancient novel, but also on Augustan poetry and many late antiquity and neo-Latin topics.
Angela Holzmeister is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is researching masculinity in the ancient Greek novel.
Paula James is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies (Open University, UK). She has published widely on the literary and reception aspects of Apuleius’ novel since 1987 and also written many chapters and articles on classical culture, including a 2011 monograph titled Ovid’s Myth of Pygmalion on Screen: In Pursuit of the Perfect Woman, and another one titled Understand Roman Civilisation (2012).
David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University and Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University. Among his recent publications are The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (2006) and Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Ideal (2010).
Sophie Lalanne is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the Department of History, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a member of the research lab ANHIMA (UMR 8210). She is the author of Une éducation grecque: Rites de passage et construction des genres dans le roman grec ancien (Paris, 2006). Her major interests are cultural history and gender history of the Greek world in the time of the Roman Empire.
Françoise Létoublon is Professor of Greek Literature and Linguistics at the Université Stendhal (Grenoble). She is the author of Il allait, pareil à la nuit. Les verbes de mouvement en grec: supplétisme et aspect verbal (Paris, 1985) and of Les lieux communs du roman (Leiden, 1993). She has edited La langue et les textes en grec ancien. Colloque Pierre Chantraine (Amsterdam, 1993), Impressions d’îles (Toulouse, 1996), Hommage à Milman Parry. Le style formulaire de l’épopée homérique et la théorie de l’oralité poétique (Amsterdam, 1997), and Homère en France après la Querelle (Paris, 1999). She is currently working on Homeric poetry, oral poetry, mythology, and their reception, up from antiquity (Greek novels) to modern times (for instance, in Angelopoulos’ film Ulysses’ Gaze).
John F. Makowski is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Loyola University Chicago. His research interests in Vergil, Ovid, and Petronius have often focused on same-sex love and the Roman reception of Greek eros. His most recent publication is “Petronius’ Giton: Gender and Genre in the Satyrika” in Narrating Desire (eds. Pinheiro, Skinner, and Zeitlin; De Gruyter, 2012). He is currently researching a book on Greek love in Latin literature.
Claudio Moreschini is Professor Emeritus of Latin Literature at the University of Pisa, Italy. Among his general interests in Late Antiquity, his attention to the ancient novel and the second-century culture are seen in such monographs as Apuleio e il platonismo (Florence, 1978) and Il mito di Amore e Psiche in Apuleio (Naples, 1994), and in shorter essays such as Aspetti della cultura filosofica negli ambienti della Seconda Sofistica, in ANRW II.36.7, and the forthcoming contribution on the Pseudoclementines in Rufinus’ Latin translation, which describes how Latin-speaking Christians employed some patterns of novel genre.
James N. O’Sullivan, born in Killarney, Ireland, in 1945, studied in Maynooth (B.A., 1966), Dublin (M.A., 1967; Travelling Studentship of the National University of Ireland), and Oxford (D.Phil. 1972), and held research fellowships in Birmingham (1973–1976) and Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1976–1977) and a von Humboldt Fellowship in Göttingen (1978–1980). He has published A Lexicon to Achilles Tatius (1980), Xenophon of Ephesus: His Compositional Technique and the Birth of the Novel (1995), the 2005 Teubner edition of the Ephesiaca, and many articles in leading journals; he is also author of about one-sixth of the articles in the massive Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos, at which he was employed in Hamburg from 1980 to 2010. O’Sullivan is working on a book on the New Testament and is editing Achilles Tatius.
Maria Pia Pattoni obtained her B.A. and Ph.D. at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy). Now she is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Università Cattolica, Brescia. Her research interests mainly focus on Attic drama, Hellenistic poetry, the Greek novel, and modern reception of Greek tragedy. Her publications include L’autenticità del Prometeo Incatenato di Eschilo (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore, 1987); Longo Sofista, Dafni e Cloe (Milano: Rizzoli, 2005); and Alcesti: Variazioni sul mito (Venice: Marsilio, 2006).
Judith Perkins is Professor of Classics and Humanities Emerita at the University of Saint Joseph. She is the author of the Suffering Self: Pain and Representation in the Early Christian Era (1995) and Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era (2009), and editor (with Ronald F. Hock and J. Bradley Chance) of Ancient Fiction and Early Christian Narrative (1998).
Ilaria Ramelli has been Professor of History of the Roman Near East, and Assistant in Ancient Philosophy, Catholic University, Milan. She is Senior Visiting Professor of Greek Thought, Senior Visiting Professor of Church History, Senior Fellow at Durham University, director of research, and scientific consultant. She is the author of many scholarly monographs, among which is I romanzi antichi e il Cristianesimo (Madrid, 2001; new ed. Eugene, 2012).
Consuelo Ruiz-Montero is Professor of Classics at the University of Murcia. Her Salamanca D. Phil. thesis was published as La estructura de la novela griega. Análisis funcional (1988). She has published numerous articles on different aspects of the Greek novels. She is currently preparing a book on orality and Greek literature in the Roman Empire.
Aldo Setaioli is Professor Emeritus for Latin Language and Literature at the University of Perugia, Italy. He is the author of eight books and nearly 200 papers in Italian and other languages. He has devoted special interest to Seneca, Vergil and his commentators, Horace, Petronius, and afterlife beliefs down to late antiquity.
Niall W. Slater is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek at Emory University. His research has focused on performance and reception of both the ancient theater and prose fiction. His books include Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes (Penn, 2002); Reading Petronius (JHUP, 1990); and Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind (Princeton, 1985), as well as translations of Middle Comedy for The Birth of Comedy (ed. J.R. Rusten, JHUP, 2011).
Susan Stephens is Sara Hart Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Stanford University. Her work includes Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments, co-authored with Jack Winkler (Princeton, 1995) and “Cultural Identity” in the Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel (2008).
Koen De Temmerman (Ph.D. Ghent University 2006) is currently an S.J. Seeger Fellow of the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Foundation Flanders (F.W.O.-Vlaanderen) at Ghent University. He specializes in Greek literature of the Roman Imperial period. A full list of publications, including off prints, can be found at http://users.ugent.be/~kdtemmer/publications.htm.
Stefan Tilg is Privatdozent at the University of Zurich and director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck. He is the author of Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel (Oxford, 2010), and is part of the Groningen research group working on a new commentary on Book 11 of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.
Peter von Möllendorff obtained his Ph.D. at Munich in 1994 with a dissertation on Aristophanes and Mikhail Bakhtin. He habilitated in 1999 with a commentary on Lucian’s True History. He currently holds a chair in Greek literature at the Justus-Liebig-University at Giessen (Germany). His recent research is on Lucian and Greek literature of the Second Sophistic as well as on ancient and modern concepts of literary theory.
Martin M. Winkler is University Professor and Professor of Classics at George Mason University. His most recent books are Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo’s New Light and The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology.
Giuseppe Zanetto is Professor of Greek Literature at the State University of Milan, Italy. He has edited the Rhesus of [Euripides] for the Teubneriana and the Birds of Aristophanes for the Collection Lorenzo Valla. He is co-author of the Lessico dei Romanzieri Greci and is now working on a new edition, with commentary, of Xenophon of Ephesus.