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Maura Lafferty

Academic History

  • Ph.D. (Medieval Studies), University of Toronto, 1993
  • M.A. (Classics), University of North Carolina, 1987
  • B.A. (Latin), Wellesley College, 1983 

Special Interests:

  • Medieval Latin and literature, manuscript studies

Current Position:

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Selected Publications:

  • Epic and the Problem of Historical Understanding: Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis (Brepols, 1998)
  • "Educating a Virgin: A Proposed Emendation of Conchubranus, Vita S. Monennae 1.3," Journal of Medieval Latin 15 (2005), pp. 237-45.
  • "Augustine, the Aeneid, and the Roman Family," in Hoping for Continuity: Childhood, Education and Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. K. Mustakallio, J. Hanska, H.-L. Sainio, and V. Vuolanto, Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 33 (Rome: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 2005), pp. 105-118.
  • "Translating Faith from Greek to Latin: Romanitas and Christianitas in Late Fourth-Century Rome and Milan," Journal of Early Christian Studies 11 (2003), pp. 21-62.
  • "Limping Jacob: The Image of the Jew in Walter of Châtillon's Lyrics," Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 33 (1998), pp. 133-47.

My current research, Roma imperatrix: Latinitas in the Middle Ages, is a series of case studies dealing with changing ideas about Latin in the Middle Ages. 

Grants:

  • National Endowment for the Humanities/Jesse Benedict Carter Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow, American Academy in Rome, 2004-2005
  • Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2001-2002


Maura Lafferty

Contact Information

Maura Lafferty
Department of Classics 
1104 McClung Tower 
The University of Tennessee 
Knoxville, TN 37996-0413

Phone: (865) 974-7178 
Fax: (865) 974-7173
mlaffert@utk.edu