The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian
Edited by Marc van der Poel
Michael Edwards and James J. Murphy
Author Information
Edited by Marc van der Poel, Radboud University
Michael Edwards, Royal Holloway, University of London, and
James J. Murphy, University of California, Davis
Marc van der Poel is Professor of Latin language and literature at Radboud Universty, The Netherlands, since 1999, where he teaches classical Latin; he has served in various managent functions, including head of the classics department and associate dean of the faculty of arts. He is currently the President of the international Society for the History of Rhetoric (2019-2022). His expertise includes Latin ancient literature, philological study of Latin texts, ancient rhetoric, and the history of rhetoric. He is preparing a new, critical edition with a commentary of Rudolph Agricola's De inventione dialectica.
James J. Murphy is Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric at the University of California, Davis. Throughout his long career, his work has been focused on establishing historical connections and the continuity of classical rhetoric, in particular Latin rhetoric, in the intellectual, educational and political contexts of the postclassical Western world. A substantial part of his work revolves around the instruction of oral and written rhetoric from the Middle Ages in Europe until the present day in the United States of America.
Michael Edwards is Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was formerly Professor of Classics at Queen Mary, University of London, the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and the University of Roehampton, where he was Head of Humanities. He was Director of the Institute of Classical Studies in the University of London, and was President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. His primary research interest is in the Attic Orators, on whom he has published extensively. He is preparing an Oxford Classical Text of Isaeus and a commentary on Aeschines' speech Against Ctesiphon.
Contributors:
Bé Breij, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Lucia Calboli Montefusco, Università di Bologna, Italy
Francisco Chico Rico, University of Alicante, Spain
Virginia Cox, New York University, USA
Lucía Díaz Marroquín, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
William J. Dominik, University of Lisbon, Portugal / University of Otago, New Zealand
Michael Edwards, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Richard A. Katula, Northeastern University, USA
Richard Leo Enos, Texas Christian University, USA
Jeanne Fahnestock, University of Maryland, USA
Elizabeth Kuhl, Fordham University, USA
D.S. Levene, New York University, USA
Peter Mack, University of Warwick, UK
Gesine Manuwald, University College London, UK
Jane Masséglia, University of Leicester, UK
James J. Murphy, University of California, Davis, USA
Thomas Schirren, Universität Salzburg, Austria
Catherine Schneider, Université de Strasbourg. France
Olga Tellegen-Couperus, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Marc van der Poel, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Cleve Wiese, Worcester State University, USA
Thomas Zinsmaier, Universität Tübingen, Germany
