Christopher M. Brunelle, Assistant Professor Emeritus of Classics
(taught at St. Olaf from 2002 to 2018)
E-mail: brunelle@stolaf.edu
B.A. (Classics & Music), Carleton College, 1989
B.A. (Classics), King’s College, University of Cambridge, 1991
M.A., Ph.D. (Classics), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1997
A specialist in Latin poetry, Chris Brunelle published Ovid, Ars Amatoria: Commentary on Book 3 (Oxford University Press), which won the Ladislaus J. Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award for 2016. He wrote articles on Ovid (including a chapter in Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry), Juvenal, Alexander the Great, and pedagogy, along with a number of book reviews. He has also published two volumes of The Church Year in Limericks (MorningStar 2017 and 2021).
Having studied with the late Fr. Reginald Foster in Rome, Brunelle is a fluent speaker of Latin and a composer of Latin poems, inscriptions, and documents. He twice gave a public reading of Love Is a Rhythmical Art, his complete translation of Ovid’s Ars amatoria into English limericks.
Brunelle taught for four years (three of them as a Mellon Fellow) at Vanderbilt University and a year at Gustavus Adolphus College before coming to St. Olaf. He served as President of the Classical Association of Minnesota and Annual Fund Chair for the SCS (Society for Classical Studies). He frequently performs as a collaborative pianist. He is now Associate Director of Alumni Relations at Carleton College and Director of Music at the First United Church of Christ in Northfield.
Besides being married to Carleton College history professor Serena Zabin, Brunelle’s greatest claim to fame is having learned to sing with a British accent in the King’s College Choir of Cambridge. He and Serena have a dog, Thalia, who loves taking a dip in the pool (see photo above for proof), and three children, Sonia, Lilith, and Julian, shown here (left to right) with their parents before enjoying the musical Six in Boston.
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