Eric Hutchinson
Classics

Eric Hutchinson

Associate Professor of Classics, Chairman of Collegiate Scholars Program
“I urge anyone who wants life on earth to really come alive for them to enjoy the beautiful ancestral ancient world.”
— Iggy Pop

Faculty Information

Additional Faculty Information for Eric Hutchinson

Education

B.A., Hillsdale College

M.A., Bryn Mawr College

Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College

Research Interests

Latin poetry; Christianity and classical culture in late antiquity and early modernity; the reception history of Latin literature; patrology.

Representative Publications

Niels Hemmingsen, On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method, translated and edited by E.J. Hutchinson, with an introduction by E.J. Hutchinson and Korey Maas (CLP Academic, 2018).

“Pagans and Theologians: An Examination of the Use of Classical Sources in Niels Hemmingsen’s De lege naturae.” Perichoresis 20.2 (2022): 63-73.

“Tradition and the Individual Talent: Some Paraphrases of Psalm 1.” In Athens and Wittenberg: Poetry, Philosophy, and Luther’s Legacy, edited by James A. Kellerman, R. Alden Smith, and Carl P.E. Springer (Brill, forthcoming).

Biography

I attribute my love of classics to a great teacher: Hillsdale College’s own David Jones. Nor can I express the purpose of higher education better than Hillsdale’s own mission statement: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary and scientific education and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.”

I have been a professor at Hillsdale College since 2007. I continue to teach here because of my wonderful students and colleagues. A classics student at Hillsdale will receive thorough and demanding philological training and a level of personal attention from the faculty that equals or excels that at most other institutions; my personal philosophy of education is a simple combination of rigorous mental exercise and love.