About
Bruce D. MacQueen, Ph.D., is applied associate professor of classics and comparative literature in The University of Tulsa’s School of Language & Literature. MacQueen works in ancient Greek and Latin language and literature (traditionally, “the classics”), and has also taught and done research in the field of neurolinguistics (how the brain controls language). From 1992 to 2012, he lived and worked in Poland, and still speaks fluent Polish (which had a major effect on how he teaches Latin and Greek). He also has more than 20 publications listed in PubMed.
Education
- Ph.D., Classics, The University of Iowa
- Dissertation: “Plato’s Republic in the Monographs of Sallust”
- M.A., Classics, University of California at Santa Barbara
Research interests and areas of expertise
- In classics:
- Ancient novel
- Greek philosophy
- Roman history (esp. Sallust and late Republic)
- In neurolinguistics:
- Aphasia
- Dementia
- Mitochondrial cytopathies (esp. MELAS syndrome)