Rate My Professor Raf Van Rooy

Van Rooy's research specializes in Latin literature and linguistics, with emphasis on Neo-Latin and its interactions with New Ancient Greek and vernaculars. Core interests include the reception of Ancient Greek in early modern Latin literature (1400-1700), historiography of linguistics, the conceptual pair ‘language’ vs. ‘dialect’, Latin-Greek code-switching, the sixteenth-century Leuven Trilingual College, and evidentiality in classical languages. He has featured as expert in the documentary Alfavitos (2021) and the podcast De Universiteit van Vlaanderen (2021). Major publications are monographs Language or Dialect? The History of a Conceptual Pair (Oxford University Press, 2020) and New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World: The Restoration of Classical Bilingualism in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond (Brill, 2023); edited works Trilingual Learning: The Study of Greek and Hebrew in a Latin World (1000-1700) (Brepols, 2022) and Greece's Labyrinth of Language (Language Science Press, 2020); and articles such as “Ippolita Maria Sforza, Student and Patroness of Greek in Milan (ca. 1465)” (Renaissance Quarterly, 2023) and “The Relevance of Evidentiality for Ancient Greek: Some Explorative Steps through Plato” (Journal of Greek Linguistics, 2016).