Christopher M. Brunelle
Christopher M. Brunelle, Assistant Professor of Classics
(has taught at St. Olaf since 2002)
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.
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 currently Treasurer of the Classical Association of Minnesota.
In his spare time Brunelle enjoys performing with the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, serving as Minister of Music for the United Church of Christ in Northfield, and indulging his love of Utimate Frisbee. 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 2009-2010: Semester I = Great Conversation 217 (New Forces of Secularization), Latin 231A & B (Intermediate Latin); Semester II = Great Conversation 218 (Dissenters and Defenders), Greek 112B (Beginning Greek II), Latin 252 (Medieval Latin)
Portia, Leo, Julian, Sebastian, and parents in Big Woods State Park
