Rate My Professor Michael Sloan

Michael C. Sloan serves as Professor of Classical Languages and Department Chair in the Department of Classics at Wake Forest University, a position he has held since his appointment in 2011, with promotion to full professor in 2023. He currently holds the F.M. Kirby Family Faculty Fellowship and previously received the Kenyon Family Faculty Fellowship for excellence in teaching and scholarship. Sloan's academic journey began with a BA, double majoring in Classics and Economics from Baylor University. He then pursued an MA in Classical Literature at Texas Tech University, followed by an MLitt in Theology and a PhD in Classics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Throughout his career at Wake Forest, he has been recognized for his innovative teaching methods, earning the Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the Teaching and Learning Center Innovative Teaching Award in 2017.

Sloan's scholarly work centers on classical literature, encompassing authors such as Aristotle, Augustine, Cicero, Homer, Horace, Erasmus, Euripides, and Orosius, as well as the Carolingian poet and scholar Sedulius Scottus. He has authored two books on Sedulius Scottus, including "The Harmonious Organ of Sedulius Scottus: Introduction to His Collectaneum in Apostolum and Translation of Its Prologue and Commentaries on Galatians and Ephesians" (2012). Notable articles include "Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics as the Original Locus for the Septem Circumstantiae" (Classical Philology, 2010), "Mauri versus Marsi in Horace’s Odes 1.2.39" (Illinois Classical Studies, 2016), "Token Questions of Identity in Euripides’ Ion" (Classical Philology, 2016), "Augustus, the Harbinger of Peace: Orosius’ Reception of Augustus in Historiae Adversus Paganos" (2018), and "Lyrical Illusions: The Two-Faced Message of Odes 1.2" (Classical Philology, 2019). Currently, he is editing a comprehensive survey of Greek and Latin literature for the ALNTS series. Beyond academia, Sloan is a prominent advocate for the humanities and liberal arts, contributing opinion pieces to the Wall Street Journal and Winston-Salem Journal, and providing expert commentary to the New York Times and other international media on classical literature and higher education.