Quintilian: The Latin Teacher Podcast Ryan Sellers

About Mississippi, the National Spelling Bee, and leaving the field of journalism to become a Latin teacher.



Sierra Mannie teaches Latin at Hunter College High School in New York City. Before she began teaching, however, she worked as a writer and journalist, with articles and editorials appearing in such publications as Time Magazine, the Jackson Free Press, and The Hechinger Report. More recently, she has also been a writer for the ABC television game show The Chase. Sierra received a bachelor’s degree in Classics and English from the University of Mississippi and a master’s degree in education from Hunter College. In 2017, she delivered a TEDx Millsaps College presentation entitled Tempora, Mores, and Other Complaints.



Recorded in November of 2023.



⁠⁠⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠⁠⁠ is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.



Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠

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Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying ⁠⁠⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠⁠⁠, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.

About tattoos, great books, and the dark side of the subjunctive.



Phuc Tran is the author of "Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In," published by Flatiron Books in 2020. "Sigh, Gone" received the New England Book Award and the Maine Literary Award, and it was also named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon. Phuc received a bachelor’s degree from Bard College and a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and he spent more than 20 years as a high school Latin teacher.  

 

In addition to his work as a classicist, writer, teacher, and tattoo artist, Phuc is known for his popular TEDx presentation entitled “Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive.” A resident of Portland, Maine, he is also an occasional contributor to Maine Public Radio. 



Recorded in November of 2023.



⁠⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠⁠ is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.



Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠

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Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying ⁠⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠⁠, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.

About Ronnie Ancona, Nava Cohen, John Gruber-Miller, and Mark Pearsall.



The American Classical League Merens (Meritus / Merita) Award is intended to recognize educators who are, as the name of the award signifies, deserving of appreciation for their "sustained and distinguished service to the Classics profession generally and to ACL in particular." In 2023, there are four recipients of this award, and in a special episode of the Quintilian podcast, we're going to speak with all of them: Ronnie Ancona, Professor of Classics at Hunter College in New York City and former editor of The Classical Outlook; Nava Cohen, a long-time elementary and middle school teacher in Illinois who is now a Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University; John Gruber-Miller, a Professor of Classical Studies at Cornell College in Iowa and founding editor of Teaching Classical Languages; and Mark Pearsall, a teacher of both Latin and Greek at Glastonbury High School in Connecticut and one of the original architects of the ALIRA proficiency exam.



Recorded in July of 2023.



Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠⁠

Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.

About Vindolanda, the Via Caledonia, and the fusion of Classics and STEM.




Nathalie Roy teaches Latin, Roman Technology, and Classical Mythology at Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A National Board Certified Teacher, Nathalie received both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from Louisiana State University. Over the course of her career, she has served in a variety of leadership positions, including State Chair of the Louisiana Junior Classical League and President of the Louisiana Classical Association. In recognition of her innovative work in finding the parallels between classical antiquity and 21st-century STEM education, Nathalie has received grants from such corporations as Lowe’s and ExxonMobil, and she has received such recognitions as the 2021 Louisiana State Teacher of the Year Award and the 2023 Cambridge Dedicated Teacher Award.


Recorded in July of 2023.



⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠ is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying ⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.

About Cincinnati, Bob Dylan and the classical tradition, and lessons from the fall of the Roman Republic for the American people.



Thomas Strunk is an Associate Professor of Classics and Director of the Classics and Philosophy Honors Bachelor of Arts Program at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a B.A. in Classical Studies and History from Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Loyola University Chicago. His research interests include Tacitus, Cato the Younger, the politics of the late Roman Republic, and Bob Dylan and the classical tradition. His most recent book is On the Fall of the Roman Republic: Lessons for the American People, published by Anthem Press in 2022.



Recorded in July of 2023.



⁠Quintilian⁠ is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠⁠⁠

Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying ⁠Quintilian⁠, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.

About MovieTalks, detoxing from the textbook, and the challenges involved in coordinating a large program with multiple teachers.



Rachel Ash and Keith Toda are two of the Latin teachers at Parkview High School, a large public school in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Rachel earned a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and an M.A. from the University of Florida. She currently serves as Treasurer of the American Classical League and as State Chair of the Georgia Junior Classical League, and in the past, she has served as Chair of Excellence Through Classics, the ACL division that is dedicated to promoting and supporting elementary, middle school, and introductory classical studies programs. Keith earned a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles, an M.A. from the University of Georgia, and an Ed.S. in Instructional Technology from Kennesaw State University. He has served as President of the Georgia Classical Association and as Chair of the American Classical League's Visibility and Advocacy Task Force. He also maintains the Toda-lly Comprehensible Latin blog, a popular repository of instructional resources for teachers who are interested in comprehensible input.



This episode was recorded in June of 2023.



Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠

Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.