William (Bill) Scott, professor emeritus of classics at Dartmouth College, has died. Here is his obituary: Remembering William Scott, Distinguished Scholar of Ancient Greek Literature.
Three Weeks in Italy: A Report on the Renata Poggioli Award
September 9, 2026
There are gifts that bring a restitutive expansiveness to the life of the mind, and the Renata Poggioli Award is one of them. My grant proposal set out two intentions: to visit sites in Italy that had eluded previous itineraries, and to seek places that would nourish my doctoral work in Comparative Literature, where Ovid, Augustine, Dante, and Bonaventure are constant interlocutors.