Peter White (professor)

Peter White
Education
Occupations
Years active1968–present

Peter White is an American classicist and professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.[1] He specializes in the study of Roman poetics and Latin literature.[1]

Education

White earned a B.A. from Boston College in 1963 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972.[1]

Career

He has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1968.[1]

He is the author of Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome (1993).[1] The book received the American Philological Association’s Goodwin Award in 1995.[2] White also received the University of Chicago’s Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Peter White CV". University of Chicago. Archived from the original on April 18, 2007. Retrieved November 26, 2025.
  2. ^ "Goodwin Award Winners". American Philological Association. Retrieved November 26, 2025.

White's CV: [1]