Christopher M. Brunelle
Christopher M. Brunelle, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
(has taught at St. Olaf since 2002)
E-mail: brunelle@stolaf.edu
Office: Tomson Hall 346
Office telephone: 507-786-3952
B.A. (Classics & Music), Carleton College, 1989
B.A. (Classics), King's College, Cambridge University, 1991
M.A., Ph.D. (Classics), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1994, 1997
Chris Brunelle has published articles on Ovid (most recently a chapter in Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry) and on teaching, along with a number of book reviews; he is joint author of Latin Laughs, a video and workbook on Plautus' Poenulus. He is currently writing a commentary on the third book of Ovid's Ars amatoria and completing his translation of the Ars amatoria into English limericks.
Having studied with Fr. Reginald Foster in Rome, Brunelle is a fluent speaker of Latin and a composer of Latin poems, inscriptions, and documents. He taught for four years (three of them as a Mellon Fellow) at Vanderbilt University and a year at Gustavus Adolphus College before coming to St. Olaf. He is Vice President of the Classical Association of Minnesota and a member of the Development Committee of the American Philological Association.
Brunelle also serves as an accompanist for the Music Department and as the Director of Music at the First United Church of Christ. Besides being married to Carleton College history professor Serena Zabin, his greatest claim to fame is having learned to sing with a British accent in the King's College Choir. He and Serena have three sons, Julian, Leo, and Sebastian.
Courses in 2011-2012: Semester I = Great Conversation 217 (The Tradition Renewed: New Forces of Secularization), Latin 231A & B (Intermediate Latin); Interim: Classics 129 (The Neverending Myth: Ovid's Metamorphoses); Semester II = Great Conversation 218 (The Tradition in Crisis: Dissenters & Defenders), Latin 235 (Medieval Latin)
Portia, Leo, Julian, Sebastian, and parents in Big Woods State Park
