T. H. M. Gellar-Goad

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad is Associate Professor of Classics at Wake Forest University.  He specializes in Latin poetry, especially the funny stuff: Roman comedy, Roman erotic elegy, Roman satire, and — if you believe him — the allegedly philosophical poet Lucretius.  He is author of Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire (University of Michigan Press), Plautus: Curculio (Bloomsbury), A Commentary on Plautus’ Curculio (forthcoming, Michigan), and Masks (forthcoming, Tangent/Punctum Books), as well as editor, with Christopher B. Polt, of Didactic Literature in the Roman World (Routledge). He co-directed (with Polt) the 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Higher Education Faculty, The Performance of Roman Comedy.