Faculty

Meet the Classics Faculty

At Knox, five full-time classicists are joined by faculty from other departments with specialized training in classical studies. This diversity, as well as the wide range of disciplines embraced under the aegis of classical studies, lends the program a special interdisciplinary character and builds bridges between classics and other areas of the Knox curriculum.

Brenda Fineberg, Chair
Professor of Classics
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1991
"One of the pleasures of working at a liberal arts college is the mutual nurturing of teaching and research."

Stephen Fineberg
Szold Distinguished Service Professor of Classics
Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin, 1975
"Alongside other scholarly pursuits, I am working on a book project that focuses on the god Dionysos in Athens."

Jason Nethercut
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2012
"My main interest is in the intersections among poetry, philosophy, and material culture."

Cooperating faculty from other programs

Lance Factor
George Appleton Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1970
"Maps often convey subtle prejudices about the superiority of nations and cultures."

Danielle Steen Fatkin
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2007

Jeff Grace
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre
Ph.D., Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University, 2008
"My dissertation examines representations of homosexual visibility that occurred in plays presented at the Caffe Cino, a small New York coffeehouse that pioneered the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway movement."