Lisa Whitlatch, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
(has taught at St. Olaf since 2014)
E-mail: whitla1@stolaf.edu
Office: Tomson Hall 321
Office telephone: 507-786-3132
B.A. (Ancient Mediterranean Studies), Trinity University, 2006
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Classics), Rutgers University, 2013
A specialist in Latin poetry, Lisa Whitlatch concentrates on animals, both their historical roles and their metaphorical appearances in literature. Her research includes epistemology, allusion and intertext, the much understudied poet Grattius, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
She recently published an article on “Empiricist Dogs and the Superiority of Philosophy in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura” (Classical World 108.1). Now she is busy transforming her dissertation, “The Hunt for Knowledge: Hunting in Latin Didactic Poets,” into a monograph.
Whitlatch loves to travel and has been a speaker at conferences across the country as well as far afield – from Sydney, Australia, to Margherita di Savoia, Italy, to London, England. She encourages her students to go see the world — or at least get out to a museum. The photo (left) shows her paying homage to Babe the Blue Ox in Bemidji, Minnesota.
Her greatest claim to fame is being unable to say no to anyone who asks her to help with a community service project, especially if it involves selling Defeat of Jesse James Days buttons.
Courses in 2015-2016: Semester I = Classics 241 (Greek and Roman Myth), Latin 111 C (Beginning Latin I), Greek 231 (Intermediate Greek); Semester II = Classics 243 (The Golden Age of Greece), Greek 373 (Greek Historians), Latin 112 B (Beginning Latin II)
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