Shane Butler

Shane Butler is the Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professor in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of Classics at Johns Hopkins University. He joined Johns Hopkins in 2015 after teaching at Columbia University (PhD 2000), University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, and the University of Bristol. His research focuses on post-classical engagement with antiquity, the history of homosexuality through sensory studies, and textual analysis of ancient and medieval works.

Education

• PhD, Columbia University (2000)

His notable publications include monographs such as The Hand of Cicero (2002), The Matter of the Page (2011), and The Ancient Phonograph (2015). He has also edited volumes like Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception (2016) and Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (2013), and is working on a monograph titled On the Surface: John Addington Symonds Across Space and Time.

Editorial Work

• Editor and translator of Latin Letters of Angelo Poliziano for the I Tatti Renaissance Library