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Patrick Glauthier is Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics at Dartmouth College, where he has served since 2017, first as Assistant Professor until 2025 and then as Associate Professor. Previously, he held lecturer positions in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania from 2013 to 2017 and in the Department of Classics at Columbia University from 2011 to 2013. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from Columbia University in 2011, with a dissertation entitled Science and Poetry in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Lucan, and the Aetna advised by Gareth Williams, as well as an M.Phil. in 2008 and M.A. in 2005 from the same institution. He earned his B.A. magna cum laude in Classics from Rice University in 2002. Among his honors are the James Wright Sustaining Faculty Excellence Award from Dartmouth College in 2025, Junior Faculty Fellowship in 2020–2021, Leslie Center for the Humanities Project Grant in 2022, Conant Fraser Conference Award in 2020, Burke Research Initiation Award in 2017, Whiting Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship in 2010–11, Polychronis Foundation Scholarship in 2007–8, and Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities in 2004–5.

Glauthier's research focuses on Latin literature of the late Republic and early Empire, with particular attention to Roman writing about the mechanics of the natural world and the experience of sublimity. His first monograph, The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna, appeared with Oxford University Press in 2025. He is co-editor of the forthcoming The Sublime Under Empire (Brill), based on an international conference he co-organized at Dartmouth in June 2022. Select publications include "Homer redivivus? Rethinking the Transmigration of the Soul in Ennius’ Annals" in Arethusa 54 (2021), "Bugonia and the Aetiology of Didactic Poetry in Virgil, Georgics 4" in Classical Quarterly 69 (2020), "Playing the Volcano: Prometheus Bound and Fifth Century Volcanic Theory" in Classical Philology 113 (2018), "Repurposing the Stars: Manilius, Astronomica 1, and the Aratean Tradition" in American Journal of Philology 138 (2017), book chapters such as "The Classical Sublime" in The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and "An Image Sublime: The Milky Way in Aratus and Manilius" in Teaching Through Images (Brill, 2022), and an entry on "Inconsistencies in Latin Literature" in the Oxford Classical Dictionary (2019). He has delivered numerous presentations on the sublime in ancient literature and serves as a referee for American Journal of Philology and Classical Quarterly. Glauthier teaches Latin courses at all levels, including Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Seneca’s Thyestes, Virgil’s Aeneid, and seminars on Roman fiction and scientific literature, alongside classical studies classes on ancient medicine and magic in the ancient world.