Tim Joseph graduated from Holy Cross with a B.A. in Classics in 1998 and then taught Latin at Cresskill Junior-Senior High School in New Jersey from 1998 to 2001. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University. Tim has been back at Holy Cross teaching on Fenwick 4 since the fall of 2006. He has taught several years in the Montserrat first-year seminar program and is serving as the director of Montserrat’s Divine Cluster in 2019–20 and 2020-21. Tim’s research concentrates on Latin historiography and epic poetry. Current projects focus on eyewitness reporting in the historical works of the Roman Empire and on the poet Lucan’s figuring of space and time in his epic poem “Pharsalia.” For more, see his Academia.edu profile at: https://holycross.academia.edu/TimothyJoseph. On occasion Tim writes for The Conversation about topics such as ancient and modern standards of reporting and Martin Luther's King's lived engagement with the Classics. In 2017 and 2018 he served as the director of the Classical Association of New England's Summer Institute at Brown University.
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