Speaker: Dr. Michael Fontaine, Cornell University
Michael Fontaine is Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Cornell University, and in 2014 was the Paideia Professor at the Paideia Institute's Living Latin in Rome course. He is the author of Funny Words in Plautine Comedy (Oxford, 2010), co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy (Oxford, 2014), and the editor and translator of Joannes Burmeister: Aulularia and Other Inversions of Plautus (Leuven University Press, 2015). His current interest is in ancient ideas about schizophrenia. He lives in Ithaca with his wife, two children, and two dogs.