Anne H. Groton

    OstiaAnticaAnneGrotonJune2015Anne H. Groton, Professor of Classics
    Chair, Department of Classics
    Director, Ancient Studies and Medieval Studies Programs
    (has taught at St. Olaf since 1981)

    E-mail: groton@stolaf.edu
    Office: Tomson Hall 367
    Office telephone: 507-786-3387

    A.B. (Latin and Greek), Wellesley College, 1976
    M.A., Ph.D. (Classical Studies), University of Michigan, 1977, 1982

    Anne Groton is the author of several articles on ancient drama as well as a Latin reader, 38 Latin Stories (co-authored with James May), and a Greek textbook, From Alpha to Omega: A Beginning Course in Classical Greek. Every other year she directs a student production of a Roman comedy by Plautus, performed in a musical mixture of Latin and English. During her sabbatical in 2013 she completed the 4th edition of her Greek textbook and an accompanying reader, 46 Stories in Classical Greek (co-authored with colleague James May).

    Groton has held an NEH Fellowship for College Teachers and spent a year as an Associate Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. In 1995 she received the American Philological Association’s Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics. She is Past President of the Classical Association of Minnesota and a former member of the Board of Trustees of Eta Sigma Phi, the national Classics honor society.  60th bday Grot1For eight years (2004-2012) she served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

    In her spare time Groton bikes, plays the piano and ukulele, composes music and poetry, and sings in a Renaissance chamber choir. Besides being able to get lost virtually anywhere, her greatest claim to fame is never having learned to parallel park. Occasionally she escapes from Northfield to visit her relatives in far-off Philadelphia.

    Courses in 2015-2016:  Semester I = Great Conversation 113 (The Greeks and the Hebrews), Latin 231 A & B (Intermediate Latin); Interim = Great Conversation 115 (The Romans and the Christians); Semester II = Great Conversation 116 (The Medieval Synthesis), Latin 112 A (Beginning Latin II)

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