Program in Early Cultures

Joseph Pucci is Professor of Classics and in the Program in Medieval Studies at Brown, where he teaches courses on classical, later and medieval Latin language and literature, literary selfhood in late antique and medieval literature, the western tradition, and reception studies. He has published nearly 70 articles, book chapters, and book reviews on Latin literary culture, and is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of seven books: Alcuin in Prose and Verse (forthcoming, Toronto, 2019); Ausonius: The Moselle, the Epigrams and Other Poems, co-authored with Deborah Warren (Routledge, 2017); The Classics Renewed: Reception and Innovation in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity, co-edited with Scott McGill (Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016); Augustine's Virgilian Retreat: Reading the Auctores at Cassiciacum (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014); Venantius Fortunatus: Poems To Friends, A Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Hackett, 2010); The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition (Yale, 1998; paperback version, 2012); and the second edition of K. P. Harrington, Medieval Latin (Chicago, 1997). An eighth book, Recuperating Virgil: Reading the Auctores in Augustine's Confessions, is completed and being revised.