T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
Professor of Classics and Denton Fellow (2012)
BA, NCSU; MA, PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill
Office Location: Tribble C308
Contact: (336) 758-5330; thmgg@wfu.edu
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad is Professor of Classics and Denton Fellow at Wake Forest University. He writes books.
Books:
A Commentary on Plautus’ Curculio, 2024, University of Michigan Press
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Masks, 2024, Tangent/punctum [press link] [Amazon] [JSTOR]
Didactic Literature in the Roman World, 2024, Routledge [press link] [Amazon]
Plautus: Curculio, 2021, Bloomsbury Academic
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Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire, 2020, University of Michigan Press
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THM in the News:
- 2025 Old Gold & Black article on THM’s “Rethinking Grading at Wake Forest” Faculty Learning Community
- 2025 The Movie Pope podcast episode about Masks
- 2025 interview in the Wake Forest College Dean’s Digest about Masks
- 2024 lecture at Fairfield University with Caitlin Hines about antiracist curricular reform
- 2024 Wake Forest News story about political discourse in THM’s first-year seminar
- 2024 essay in Pasts Imperfect by THM about his new book Masks
- 2024 WCHL Viewpoints column by THM about North Carolina anti-masking laws
- 2024 episodes 4 and 5 of The American Scholar‘s Smarty Pants podcast miniseries “Exploding the Canon,” excerpting an interview with THM about Classics Beyond Whiteness and the Department of Classics’ curricular reform
- 2022 episode of Lucretius Today podcast about THM’s article “Lucretius on the Size of the Sun”
- 2022 discussion on Epicurean Friends about THM’s article “Lucretius on the Size of the Sun”
- 2022 interview with Khameleon Classics podcast about Classics Beyond Whiteness
- 2022 Inside WFU story about THM’s NEH grant
- 2022 THM wins this year’s Leadership Award from the Women’s Classical Caucus
- 2022 National Endowment for the Humanities press release announcing the awarding of a grant for an Institute for Higher Education Faculty on the performance of Roman comedy, co-directed by THM and Christopher B. Polt of Boston College
- 2021 Old Gold & Black Deacon Profile on THM’s and the department’s work with Classics Beyond Whiteness
- 2021 Triad City Beat article including interview with THM about advocacy for a nondiscrimination ordinance for Winston-Salem
- 2021 Sententiae Antiquae interview with THM about Classics Beyond Whiteness
- 2020 University of Michigan Press book talk, “Satire Is Not for the Faint-Hearted”
- 2020 Old Gold & Black article interviewing THM and Prof. Mary Pendergraft about Classics department antiracist initiatives
- 2020 Winston-Salem Journal guest column led by THM and co-signed by 140+ Wake Forest faculty and staff
- 2020 Wake Forest News feature on THM and Dr. Caitlin Hines’ department series CLASSICS BEYOND WHITENESS
- 2020 Old Gold & Black Deacon Profile on THM
- 2020 Pharos article about THM and Dr. Hines’ antiracist work
- 2019 Winston-Salem Journal guest column by THM and Dr. Hines rejecting white-supremacist appropriations of Classics
- 2019 Cesena Today article about an international conference on sex-laborers in Roman comedy, including a presentation by THM
- 2015 interview in Classics Confidential about teaching Classics through performance
- 2014 Wake Forest Magazine feature story on THM’s Latin roleplaying game
- 2013 Winston-Salem Journal article on the Latin motto on the seal of Forsyth County, featuring THM as expert consultant