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Richard H. Armstrong is an Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Houston’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. He teaches courses such as Roman, Jew, and Christian, The Roman Republic, and Myth and Modernity, many available for Honors credit.
- BA, University of Chicago
- M.Phil. and Ph.D., Yale University
His research intersects classical receptions, the history of psychoanalysis, and translation studies. He authored A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World (Cornell UP, 2005) and co-edited Remusings: Essays on the Translation of Classical Poetry (2007), A Companion to the Translation of Classical Epic (2025), and the forthcoming Bloomsbury Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Classical Reception (2026). He co-curated the exhibition Freud’s Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire at the Freud Museum London.
- Center for Hellenic Studies Fellowship
- Provost Teaching Excellence Award
- Provost Career Award
- Nationally Competitive Scholarship Mentor Award
- CLASS Distinguished Faculty Award
Armstrong has mentored students extensively in the Honors College (14 years) and led a service learning trip to a clinic in Santa Ana, Honduras, organized with the NGO Shoulder to Shoulder and UH’s Bonner Leaders program. His academic integrity work includes serving as the Honors College’s First Hearing Officer for plagiarism cases, notably engaging with public debates like the 2016 Melania Trump plagiarism controversy.
