Latin SLI Instructors
ANDREW BEER is an instructor in the first half of the 2011 Latin SLI. He says, "I have a BA in Classical Studies from Hillsdale College, a MA in Greek and Latin from Bryn Mawr College; I taught Latin for two years at O.D. Wyatt High School and Morningside Middle School in Fort Worth, TX. I am an avid Chicago Cubs fan and have already begun making my one-year-old son an avid fan too."
DAVID HEWETT is an instructor in the first half of the 2011 Latin SLI. He says, "I can hardly believe it, but I've studied Latin for nearly half my life now. I began in high school, took a BA in Classical Studies from Dickinson College in 2006, and received my MA in Classics from UVA in 2009. In addition, I spent two summers studying spoken Latin in Rome with Fr. Reginald Foster, former Papal Latinist. I have also participated in three spoken Latin seminars run by Terence Tunberg of the University of Kentucky. In my teaching at UVA, I have tried to include active Latin in the confines of the more normal passive approach. My research interests include Greek and Roman historiography (especially Tacitus and Thucydides), ancient philosophy (especially Stoicism), religion, and metaphor and allegory. I am also interested generally in the great amount of Latin literature produced after the Classical Roman period. In my free time, I organize a weekly spoken Latin dinner, serve as President of CHÜVA, a co-op housing community, practice yoga at Ashtanga Yoga of Charlottesville, and obsess over progressive rock music."
JENNIFER LAFLEUR is an instructor in the second half of the 2011 Latin SLI. She says, "I grew up in Chico, a Northern California college town similar in size and character to Charlottesville. After various adventures, including some time as an assistant craftsmaker and merchant at Renaissance Faires and, later, a therapeutic massage certification, I returned home to attend California State University, Chico. There I earned my BA in History with minors in Philosophy, Linguistics, and Classical Civilization. I then studied Greek and Latin in the Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classics at the University of California, Davis, after which I joined the Classics department here at UVA as a graduate student in Fall 2008. My research interests are in Greek and Latin Historiography, particularly in the definition of 'history' as a genre and in the Roman reception of Greek historians. Teaching is also one of my great pleasures. I love helping students make sense of Latin and in the process enhance their understanding of how English works. Along the way, I get to nurture curiosity about the ancient world and its relationship to our own. When I can, I rejuvenate from all this wonderful work by cooking, knitting, belly-dancing, reading fantasy and sci-fi, or watching movies with my long-time boyfriend and our two cats, Gir and Terra-Spoot. More rarely, but very happily, we do something outdoorsy or see some great live music."
HAROLD SMITH REEVES is an instructor in the second half of the 2011 Latin SLI. A native of Cranford, N.J., Harold graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in Classics in 1991. After graduation, he was a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley and worked in Washington, D.C. before entering The Law School at the University of Chicago. He there served as articles editor on the Law Review and published on the economic analysis of virtual property rights and Internet boundary definition. He received his J.D. in 1996, and worked for a year as a judicial clerk for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Following his clerkship, he worked as an associate in the litigation group in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom; he worked for clients ranging from Citigroup and Verizon to the heirs of Abraham Zapruder and President Clinton. In 2000, he became a Basselin Fellow at the Catholic University of America, receiving his licentiate in Philosophy in 2002. From 2002 to 2007, Harold studied Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, where he received his S.T.B., and taught Latin as an adjutant in the School of Canon Law. He entered the graduate program here at the University of Virginia in 2008. In addition to reading Latin and Greek, he enjoys listening to Les Savy Fav and Sleater Kinney, the Law, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, politics, doing laundry, economic analysis, and arguing with people.