Stanford Humanities Center
SHC Dissertation Prize Fellow
Department of Classics, Stanford University
Brandon Bark is a PhD candidate in the Department of Classics at Stanford University. His interests include the philosophy of language, ancient grammar, and language-policing in the ancient world, as well as book history and Latin paleography.
SHC Project
The Wide Mouth of Bitter War: Foreign Languages in Greek and Latin Epic
Bark’s dissertation project investigates metalinguistic discourse in ancient Greek and Latin literature. How did Greek and Latin authors write about language? How did generic expectations and literary precedent shape the form linguistic descriptions assume in Classical literature? Conversely, how did changing attitudes about language manifest in literature?
