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Gregory A. Staley
Gregory Staley (gs32@umail.umd.edu),
Associate Professor of Classics, has been teaching at the University of
Maryland since 1979. His work at Maryland constitutes a return of sorts,
since he first began his study of Latin at North Hagerstown High School
here in Maryland. Professor Staley earned his A.B. in Latin at Dickinson
College in Carlisle, PA, where he received the Filler Prize in Classics.
He did his graduate work at Princeton University, receiving there both his
M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics. At Princeton he was chosen as a Proctor Fellow.
He did postgraduate work in 1983-84 as a Rome Prize Fellow at the American
Academy in Rome.
Professor Staley has published articles on Sophocles, Vergil, Seneca
and Robinson Jeffers. He has worked primarily on Latin literature, with
a particular interest in the tragedies of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Recently,
through his work in teaching classical mythology, he has developed an
interest in the influence of classical myth on America. He is finishing
an article on Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and developing an Honors
Seminar on the topic.
When he first came to Maryland, Professor Staley was asked to take charge
of the department's annual Latin Day. He won a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities to support Latin Day for three years and
to develop in connection with it new teaching materials which assisted
teachers in using Latin to teach about Roman culture. These materials
have been published in a collection titled Speculum Romanum. He continued
his work with teachers through a second grant funded by NEH, which supported
a summer institute titled "The Songs of the Muses: Approaches to Classical
Mythology" in 1990.
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