Peter White (professor)

Peter White (professor)

Peter White is a professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He has made numerous contributions to scholarship on Latin literature, particularly Roman poetics. He has written "Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome" (Cambridge, Mass., 1993), for which he won the American Philological Association's Goodwin Award in 1995. He has won numerous other honors, including the University of Chicago's highly prized Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He took his B.A. from Boston College in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972. He has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1968.

References

Reflist White's CV: [http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/classics/people/whitecv.htm]


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