New Faculty Join Classics

The department is pleased to announce the addition of two new faculty. Andrew (Andy) Cain arrived in August 2003 as an Assistant Professor, and Alison Orlebeke took over as Latin Program Coordinator in January 2004.

Andy Cain obtained his BA from the University of South Carolina in 1998, studied at the Ecole Nationale des Chartres, Paris, in 1999, and earned his MA (2001) and PhD (2003) from Cornell University. He wrote his dissertation on the letters of St. Jerome and has put his knowledge to good work this year by teaching “Paganism to Christianity” and a graduate reading course in St. Augustine. He also taught 3000 level Latin reading courses in Livy and Horace. He enjoyed a productive year on the professional front as well. During the spring semester, he delivered conference papers at the APA meeting in San Francisco and at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, where he also chaired a panel on Late Latin. Andy’s article, “Defending Hedibia and Detecting Eusebius: Jerome’s Correspondence with Two Gallic Women (Epp. 120-121),” will appear this summer in a special issue of the Journal of Medieval Prosopography. As he completes other articles on Jerome and on Gregory of Tours, he is beginning to think about turning his dissertation into a book.

Shortly before arriving in Boulder, Andy and his wife Anna welcomed their son Thomas into the world. Tommy now climbs stairs and enjoys watching baseball with his “da da”. So far he seems to be a Yankees fan.

Alison Orlebeke grew up in Illinois and earned her BA from Carleton College in Minnesota in 1988. She gained her PhD from Princeton University in 1999, with a dissertation on “Aspects of Innovation in Propertius’ Third Book of Elegies.” Her special interests are Greek and Latin Poetry. She taught Latin at Regis University in Denver from spring 1998 to spring 2000 and taught previously at CU in spring 1996 (Greek) and fall 2001 (Horace). This spring she taught Beginning Latin I and Intermediate Latin: Vergil.

Alison and her husband, Associate Professor Noel Lenski, have three children—Paul, who will enter the third grade this fall, Helen, a pre-schooler, and Chloe, born in March 2003. Her hobbies are reading, gardening and cooking.