Rate My Professor Michael Sloan

Sloan's scholarly work centers on classical literature, encompassing authors such as Aristotle, Augustine, Cicero, Homer, Horace, Erasmus, Euripides, and Orosius, as well as the Carolingian poet and scholar Sedulius Scottus. He has authored two books on Sedulius Scottus, including "The Harmonious Organ of Sedulius Scottus: Introduction to His Collectaneum in Apostolum and Translation of Its Prologue and Commentaries on Galatians and Ephesians" (2012). Notable articles include "Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics as the Original Locus for the Septem Circumstantiae" (Classical Philology, 2010), "Mauri versus Marsi in Horace’s Odes 1.2.39" (Illinois Classical Studies, 2016), "Token Questions of Identity in Euripides’ Ion" (Classical Philology, 2016), "Augustus, the Harbinger of Peace: Orosius’ Reception of Augustus in Historiae Adversus Paganos" (2018), and "Lyrical Illusions: The Two-Faced Message of Odes 1.2" (Classical Philology, 2019). Currently, he is editing a comprehensive survey of Greek and Latin literature for the ALNTS series. Beyond academia, Sloan is a prominent advocate for the humanities and liberal arts, contributing opinion pieces to the Wall Street Journal and Winston-Salem Journal, and providing expert commentary to the New York Times and other international media on classical literature and higher education.