W. Martin Bloomer, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, Notre Dame, will lecture on "The Metamorphic Landscape: Cosmogony, Intertextuality, Catastrophe in Ovid's Fiction."
W. Martin Bloomer’s chief areas of research lie in Latin literature, ancient rhetoric, and ancient education. His books include Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility (Chapel Hill 1993), Latinity and Literary Society at Rome (Philadelphia 1997), The Contest of Language (Notre Dame 2005) and The School of Rome (University of California Press, forthcoming).