Michael Fontaine
Michael Fontaine is an Associate Professor of Classics, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Classics, Arts and Science, Cornell University. His research interest ranges between classical Latin literature and philology, Greek and Roman comedy, and Baroque Neo-Latin literature; Roman culture broadly conceived; Virgil; psycholinguistics and sociology; psychiatry; Epicureanism. He has several publications, such as a book entitled Funny Words in Plautine Comedy 2010, many articles such as “On Religious and Psychiatric Atheism: The Success of Epicurus, the Failure of Thomas Szasz”, MadInAmerica.com, 2014; and “The Reception of Greek Comedy in Rome”, 2014, and many book reviews such as Sophocles. The Theban Plays: Oedipus the Tyrant; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, 2014 and Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up, 2014. He has also delivered many public presentations.
Professor Fontaine is a member of the Society for Classical Studies (life member), Classical Association of the Middle West and South (occasional member) and the Paideia Institute (Advisory Board). He has various outreach activities, in addition to his role as an external referee to some distinguished publishing houses and journals, such as the Blackwell Books, the Oxford University Press and the Classical Journal.