T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
Associate Professor (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 Associate Professor of Classics at Wake Forest University. He specializes in Latin poetry, especially the funny stuff: Roman comedy, Roman erotic elegy, Roman satire, and — if you believe him — the allegedly philosophical poet Lucretius. He is author of Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire (University of Michigan Press), Plautus: Curculio (Bloomsbury), A Commentary on Plautus’ Curculio (forthcoming, Michigan), and Masks (forthcoming, Tangent/Punctum Books), as well as editor, with Christopher B. Polt, of Didactic Literature in the Roman World (Routledge). He co-directed (with Polt) the 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Higher Education Faculty, The Performance of Roman Comedy.
Books:
Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire, 2020, University of Michigan Press
Plautus: Curculio, 2021, Bloomsbury Academic
THM in the News:
- 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 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
- 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