Lee T. Pearcy
Lee T. Pearcy received his Ph.D. in Latin from Bryn Mawr College in 1974. In 1985, after teaching at St. Olaf College and the University of Texas at Austin, he joined the faculty of the Episcopal Academy (Philadelphia). At Episcopal he has served as chair of the Classics Department and Director of Curriculum, and he also holds a concurrent appointment as Research Associate in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr. His research focuses on classical reception, ancient medicine, and Latin poetry. His books include Mediated Muse: English Translations of Ovid, 1560-1700 (Archon Books, 1984), The Shorter Homeric Hymns (Hackett, 1989), and most recently The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America (Baylor University Press, 2005).
