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Joseph A. Howley is an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University, specializing in Imperial Latin prose, Greek literature of the Second Sophistic, and the history of the book. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of St Andrews (2011), an M.Litt in Ancient History from St Andrews (2007), and a B.A. in Ancient Studies from UMBC (2006). His research focuses on Roman reading cultures, textual materiality, and the intersection of slavery with book production. He is Secretary of the Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography and co-organizes the MATERIA workshop series on material texts in the Roman world.
Dr. Howley’s work examines how enslaved labor shaped Roman literary production, early modern printing of classical texts, and phonographic recordings of Greek/Latin. His 2018 monograph Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture redefines understanding of encyclopedic writing. Current projects include Slavery and the Roman Book and studies on classical paratextual transmission.
Teaching responsibilities include Latin language, book history, and Literature Humanities in Columbia’s Core Curriculum. He collaborates with Rare Book School and co-chairs Columbia’s Material Texts seminar. Professional activities span editorial work for Oxford and Brill presses, with ongoing research into ancient media histories and classical textual remediation.
