Gregory Hays

Gregory Hays serves as Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics at the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences, where he has taught since 1999 after prior appointments at the University of Illinois and postdoctoral work at Munich's Thesaurus Linguae Latinae.

His research specializes in late and medieval Latin literature with particular focus on the sixth-century North African mythographer Fulgentius, on whom he is preparing an Oxford University Press edition with commentary. Additional research trajectories include Latin palaeography, manuscript studies from 1500 to present, Greek lyric poetry's reception in modernist movements, and the ancient reception of Vergil.

Analysis of his fifteen most recent publications reveals consistent scholarly output centered on North African Latin literature, medieval mythography, and textual criticism, with significant contributions to understanding Fulgentius's works and their transmission. His 2002 Modern Library translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains widely circulated despite his current restriction on related interviews.

Hays contributes to academic discourse through editorial roles with the Toronto Medieval Latin Texts series and Journal of Medieval Latin publications, while maintaining active scholarly engagement through his New York Review of Books contributions and Mastodon presence.

His teaching portfolio spans undergraduate Roman Civilization surveys to specialized graduate seminars on Latin palaeography, Petronius, Lucan, and first-year seminars examining Edgar Allan Poe and Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, demonstrating pedagogical versatility across classical and medieval curricula.