Martin Shedd
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
Martin Shedd received his B.A. in classics and music (collaborative piano) at Saint Olaf College, and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in classical studies at Indiana University. He returns to Hamilton after two years in Munich, Germany, as the Society for Classical Studies fellow to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, where part of his work was, quite literally, the definition of ridiculus. His research examines how historiographic writings from the later Roman Empire construct and manipulate ideas of identity and belonging, through rhetoric and the reinterpretation of prior historians. His co-authored translation of the fifth-century Ecclesiastical History of Anonymous Cyzicenus recently released with the Society of Biblical Literature Press.
Research Interests
Roman historiography, rhetoric, Late Antiquity, early Christianity, Greco-Roman education
Distinctions
SCS/NEH Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Postdoctoral Fellowship, Munich, Germany (2022-24)
Selected Publications
- Shedd, M., S. Tandy, and J. Schott. 2024. Remembering Nicaea: The Ecclesiastical History of Anonymous Cyzicenus (CPG 6034). Writings from the Greco-Roman World. SBL Press: Atlanta.
- Dictionary Entries, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Munich (forthcoming): retractatio, retracto, retractor, revivisco/revivo, rhombus, rideo, ridiculus, riguus, rivus, roro, rostrum, rudimentum, ruga, ruginosus, rugositas, rugosus, 1.runco, 2.runco, ruo.
- “The Mask of Compilation: Authorial Interventions in Anonymous Cyzicenus.” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 62 (2022): 494–525.
- “The Historia Augusta before Pal. Lat. 899: lost manuscripts and scribal mediation.” The Classical Quarterly 71.1 (2021): 402–421.
Professional Experience
Translator for the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
Appointed to the Faculty
2024Educational Background
Ph.D., Indiana University
M.A., Indiana University
B.A., St. Olaf College
