Stephen Hill
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Faculty Information
Additional Faculty Information for Stephen Hill
Education:
B.A. in English, Bryan College, 2010
M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
M.A. in Classics, University of Kentucky, 2016
Ph.D. in Classics, University of Virginia, 2024
Publications:
2026. “Fortune’s Tragic Variety Show: Generic Play in Lucian’s Necyomantia.” American Journal of Philology 147 (2): 291–315.
2022. “Task-Based Language Teaching and Ancient Languages.” In Transmitting a Heritage: The Teaching of Ancient Languages from Antiquity to the 21st Century, edited by C. Rico and J. Pedicone, 249–264. Jerusalem: Polis Institute Press.
2021. “A Conventiculum for Speakers of Ancient Greek: The Lexington Synodos Hellenike.” In Communicative Approaches to Teaching Classical Languages, edited by M. Lloyd and S. Hunt, 133–40. London: Bloomsbury.
2021. Hansel and Gretel in Ancient Greek (with Christophe Rico). Jerusalem: Polis Institute Press.
Biography
Stephen Hill is a classicist with particular interests in imperial Greek literature and ancient language pedagogy. After a B.A. in English literature (Bryan College), he earned an M.A. in language teaching and second language acquisition at the University of Illinois, an M.A. in Classics at the University of Kentucky, and a Ph.D. in Classics at the University of Virginia. He has taught spoken ancient Greek with the Polis Institute (in Rome, Florida, and Virginia), with the Ancient Language Institute (in North Carolina), and at the σύνοδος ἑλληνική in Lexington, Kentucky, which he co-founded with Christophe Rico. He is currently working on a monograph on the figure of Heracles in imperial Greek literature.