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Andrew Dinan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Classics
Email:
andrew.dinan@avemaria.edu
Phone:
(239) 280-1619
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Office:
Henkels 2050

Andrew Dinan, Ph.D.

Academic interests:

Neo-Latin in the United States

Liturgical Latin

Scholastic Latin

Greek and Latin Patristics

Favorite courses to teach (beyond the elementary stage)

Latin Church Fathers

Virgil's Aeneid

Scholastic Latin

Homer

Other affiliations

Committee for the Cause of the Beatification of the Martyrs of La Florida

Historical Commission, Cause for the Beatification of the Martyrs of La Florida

Architectural Committee, Shrine of Our Lady, Queen of the Martyrs (Tallahassee)

Education

B.A., Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame; M.T.S., Moral Theology, John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage & Family; M.A., Greek & Latin, Catholic University of America; Ph.D., Greek & Latin, Catholic University of America

About

Current Research Projects:

Res Domestica Litterarum Latinarum: multi-volume annotated transcription and translation of the correspondence between Francis Patrick Kenrick (Bishop of Philadelphia and then Archbishop of Baltimore) and his brother Peter Richard Kenrick (Bishop and then Archbishop of St. Louis)

Latin Epigraphy in Nineteenth-Century America: annotated transcription and translation of Charles Piccirillo, "Pro Academia Linguae Latinae habenda anno schol. 1880–81"

Academic publications

  • "Latin Letters between Family Members in the United States," Humanistica Lovaniensia [forthcoming 2024]
  • "Pope Leo XIII's Hymns for the Feast of the Holy Family," Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 26 (2022): 134–153
  • "Far from a Fossil: Msgr. James Andrew Corcoran and the Latin Language," American Catholic Studies 131 (2020): 25–51
  • "The Sense of Reparare in Classical Culture and in the Eucharistic Prefaces for Epiphany and Easter, Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 26 (2020): 152–174
  • "Latin and the American Civil War," The Classical Journal 113.2 (2018): 202–233
  • "Woodstock Letters and the Jesuit Commitment to Latin," Humanistica Lovaniensia 66 (2017): 453–486
  • "Another Citation of Philo in Clement of Alexandria's Protrepticus (10,93,1–2)" Vigiliae Christianae 64.5 (2010): 435–444
  • "Αἴνιγμα and αίνίττομαι in the Works of Clement of Alexandria," Studia Patristica 46 (2010): 175–180
  • "Manual Labor in the Life and Thought of St. Basil the Great," Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 12 (2009): 133–157
  • "Why does Clement of Alexandria predicate the verb μαντεύομαι of Heraclitus?" Journal of Early Christian Studies 16 (2008): 31–60
  • "The Mystery of Play: Clement of Alexandria's Appropriation of Philo in the Paedagogus (1.5.21.3–22.1)," The Studia Philonica Annual 19 (2007): 59–80

Invited Lectures

  • "Before Jamestown and Plymouth: The Story of the Early Florida Martyrs," Hail Mary Lecture Series, Ave Maria University, October 2, 2021
  • "The Personalities of the Sixteenth-Century Florida Martyrs," 22nd annual Augustinian Lecture, Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Florida, August 27, 2021
  • "In Defense of the Aeneid," Thomas Aquinas College, Northfield, Massachusetts, September 18, 2020

Education

B.A. University of Notre Dame, 1994

M.T.S. The John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, 1997

M.A. The Catholic University of America, 2000

Ph.D. The Catholic University of America, 2005

Research and Publications

Americana Latine: Latin Moments in the History of The United States

"Americana Latine: Latin Moments in the History of the United States" presents over one hundred Latin texts written for the most part in or about lands that would become, or currently are, part of the United States. Preceding each Latin text is an English introduction, and each text is annotated with historical and at times linguistic detail.

Current Research Projects:

Res Domestica Litterarum Latinarum: multi-volume annotated transcription and translation of the correspondence between Francis Patrick Kenrick (Bishop of Philadelphia and then Archbishop of Baltimore) and his brother Peter Richard Kenrick (Bishop and then Archbishop of St. Louis)

Latin Epigraphy in Nineteenth-Century America: annotated transcription and translation of Charles Piccirillo, "Pro Academia Linguae Latinae habenda anno schol. 1880–81"

Academic publications

  • "Latin Letters between Family Members in the United States," Humanistica Lovaniensia [forthcoming 2024]
  • "Pope Leo XIII's Hymns for the Feast of the Holy Family," Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 26 (2022): 134–153
  • "Far from a Fossil: Msgr. James Andrew Corcoran and the Latin Language," American Catholic Studies 131 (2020): 25–51
  • "The Sense of Reparare in Classical Culture and in the Eucharistic Prefaces for Epiphany and Easter, Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 26 (2020): 152–174
  • "Latin and the American Civil War," The Classical Journal 113.2 (2018): 202–233
  • "Woodstock Letters and the Jesuit Commitment to Latin," Humanistica Lovaniensia 66 (2017): 453–486
  • "Another Citation of Philo in Clement of Alexandria's Protrepticus (10,93,1–2)" Vigiliae Christianae 64.5 (2010): 435–444
  • "Αἴνιγμα and αίνίττομαι in the Works of Clement of Alexandria," Studia Patristica 46 (2010): 175–180
  • "Manual Labor in the Life and Thought of St. Basil the Great," Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 12 (2009): 133–157
  • "Why does Clement of Alexandria predicate the verb μαντεύομαι of Heraclitus?" Journal of Early Christian Studies 16 (2008): 31–60
  • "The Mystery of Play: Clement of Alexandria's Appropriation of Philo in the Paedagogus (1.5.21.3–22.1)," The Studia Philonica Annual 19 (2007): 59–80

Invited Lectures

  • "Before Jamestown and Plymouth: The Story of the Early Florida Martyrs," Hail Mary Lecture Series, Ave Maria University, October 2, 2021
  • "The Personalities of the Sixteenth-Century Florida Martyrs," 22nd annual Augustinian Lecture, Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Florida, August 27, 2021
  • "In Defense of the Aeneid," Thomas Aquinas College, Northfield, Massachusetts, September 18, 2020

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