Department of Greek and Latin

Dr. John F. Petruccione

John F. Petruccione (email; BA, Dartmouth, Classics, 1972; MA, Oxford, Theology, 1974; PhD, Michigan, Classical Studies, 1985), associate professor, is the founding editor and editorial director of the Library of Early Christianity (LEC), a series of scholarly editions of early Christian texts with facing-page English translations. His publications include articles on the martyr hymns of Prudentius in Analecta Bollandiana, Etudes Augustiniennes, Sacris Erudiri and Vigiliae Christianae. He was also the editor of Nova et Vetera: Patristic Studies in Honor Of Thomas Patrick Halton (CUA Press, 1998).  Most recently, in collaboration with R. C. Hill, he has published an editio minor with translation and notes of Theodoret of Cyrrus, The Questions on the Octateuch, volumes 1f. of the LEC (CUA Press, 2007). Dr. Petruccione is currently editing several traditions of the medieval glosses on Prudentius' Peristephanon and, with Prof. T. P. Halton, the correspondence of Theodoret of Cyrrus. His recent article "The q:, quare hoc, and ad quid Glosses: Observations on Their Purpose and Distribution" appears in Scriptorium (2008).  He has been the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanities at the American Academy in Rome (1990-91), a Margo Tytus Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati (fall 2003), a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Rome (2007-08), and a Scaliger Fellowship at the Universiteitsbibliothek of the University of Leiden (June, 2008).  During the fall semester of 2011, he was supported on research leave by a grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation for work an edition of the Greek text of the letters of Theodoret of Cyrrus.  A member of the CUA faculty since 1985, he has taught courses in both languages at all levels, as well as courses in Greek and Latin classical and patristic literature and in medieval Latin literature.