Biography
Tim Joseph’s research and teaching concentrate on Latin historiography and epic poetry, and on the reception of the Classics in the United States. He is the author of Tacitus the Epic Successor (Brill, 2012), and Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (Oxford University Press, 2022). With Caroline Johnson Hodge and Tat-siong Benny Liew of the Department of Religious Studies, he co-edited the volume Divided Worlds? Interdisciplinary and Contemporary Challenges in Classics and New Testament Studies (SBL Press, 2023).
At Holy Cross Tim has served as Classics Department chair, director of Montserrat’s Divine Cluster, and as the director of the Peace & Conflict Studies program. He served as the president of the Classical Association of New England in 2022-23.
Recent and Upcoming Courses
- Intermediate Latin 1
- Tacitus
- TheClassics&Conflict in the US
- Nature in the Classical World
- 1st Readings in College Latin
- Nation & Individual: Virgil
- Intermediate Greek 2
Books
Tacitus the Epic Successor. Virgil, Lucan, and the Narrative of Civil War in the Histories. Mnemosyne Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, vol. 345. Brill, 2012.
Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Divided Worlds? Interdisciplinary and Contemporary Challenges in Classics and New Testament Studies. Co-edited with Caroline Johnson Hodge and Tat-siong Benny Liew. SBL Press, 2023.
Other Published Works
“Pharsalia as Rome’s ‘day of doom’ in Lucan,” American Journal of Philology 138.1 (2017): 107–141.
"The Verbs Make the Man: A Reading of Caesar, Gallic War 1.7 and Civil War 1.1 and 3.2," The New England Classical Journal 44.3 (2017): 150-161.
"Caesar in Vergil and Lucan," in Luca Grillo and Christopher Krebs, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 289-303.
“East and West in the Histories of Herodotus and Tacitus,” in Mary English and Lee Fratantuono, eds., Pushing the Boundaries of Historia (Routledge, 2018), 69–85.
"The Figure of the Eyewitness in Tacitus' Histories," Latomus 78 (2019): 68–101.
"'One city captures us': Lucan's Inverted Disaster Narrative," in Virginia Closs and Elizabeth Keitel, eds., Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination (De Gruyter, 2020), 33-48.
“Agrippina’s (Un-)Augustan anger: Tacitus, Annals 12.22.3 and Ovid, Tristia 2.127,” Classical Quarterly 73.1 (2023): 1-8.
Clubs and Organizations
Peace and Conflict Studies at Holy Cross: https://www.holycross.edu/academics/programs/peace-and-conflict-studies
Classical
Association of New England: https://caneweb.org/