Eric Hutchinson
Classics

Eric Hutchinson

Chairman and Associate Professor of Classics; Director of Collegiate Scholars Program
“I urge anyone who wants life on earth to really come alive for them to enjoy the beautiful ancestral ancient world.”
— Iggy Pop

Faculty Information

Additional Faculty Information for Eric Hutchinson

Education

B.A., Hillsdale College

M.A., Bryn Mawr College

Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College

Research Interests

Latin poetry; Christianity and classical culture in late antiquity and early modernity; the reception history of Latin literature; patrology.

Representative Publications

Niels Hemmingsen, On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method, translated and edited by E.J. Hutchinson, with an introduction by E.J. Hutchinson and Korey Maas (CLP Academic, 2018).

“Pagans and Theologians: An Examination of the Use of Classical Sources in Niels Hemmingsen’s De lege naturae.” Perichoresis 20.2 (2022): 63-73.

“Tradition and the Individual Talent: Some Paraphrases of Psalm 1.” In Athens and Wittenberg: Poetry, Philosophy, and Luther’s Legacy, edited by James A. Kellerman, R. Alden Smith, and Carl P.E. Springer (Brill, forthcoming).

Biography

I attribute my love of classics to a great teacher: Hillsdale College’s own David Jones. Nor can I express the purpose of higher education better than Hillsdale’s own mission statement: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary and scientific education and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.”

I have been a professor at Hillsdale College since 2007. I continue to teach here because of my wonderful students and colleagues. A classics student at Hillsdale will receive thorough and demanding philological training and a level of personal attention from the faculty that equals or excels that at most other institutions; my personal philosophy of education is a simple combination of rigorous mental exercise and love.