Erik Z.D. Ellis
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Faculty Information
Additional Faculty Information for Erik Z.D. Ellis
Education
Ph.D. (Medieval Studies), University of Notre Dame, 2019
M.A. (Classics), University of Notre Dame, 2016
M.M.S. (Medieval Studies), University of Notre Dame, 2015
M.A. (History), Baylor University, 2007
B.A. (University Scholars), Baylor University, 2006
Peer-reviewed Publications
“Augustine on the Katechon: A Lesson from De Civitate Dei,” with Patricio Domínguez, Scripta Medievalia 16.1 (Forthcoming 2023).
“Iterative amplificatio: a new way to read the ‘Lame Beggars Sequence’ in More’s Epigrammata,” Moreana 59.2 (2022): 220–232.
“Performing Acclamation in Tenth-Century Byzantium: De Cerimoniis between Roman Practice and Christian Theory,” Studia Patristica 130 (2021): 403-423.
“The Utopia Correspondence of 1515,” Moreana 58.2 (2021): 137-162.
“Dissent from Mt. Ventoux: Between Christian and Secular Humanism in Petrarch’s de Ascensu Montis Ventosi,” Scripta Medievalia 14.1 (2021): 71-95.
“A True Knowledge of Theology: Self-Fashioning and Typological Emulation in the ErasmusDorp Affair,” Moreana 56.2 (2019): 161-176.
“Talis erat: The Continental Reputation of Thomas More in the Latin Epigrams of Stapleton’s Vita Thomae Mori,” Moreana 55.2 (2018): 211-250.
Essays, Reviews, and Interviews
“Notes from the Quad: Hillsdale College,” CiRCE Institute Quiddity Podcast, December 12th, 2022.
Review of Pádraig Lenihan and Keith Sidwell, Poema de Hibernia: A Jacobite Epic on the Williamite Wars, Neo-Latin News 70.3-4 (2022): 193-198.
“Mortimer Adler: Champion of Great Books Education,” Real Clear Education, March 14th, 2022.
Review of Andrew Dinan, Americana Latine, Neo-Latin News 69.3-4 (2021): 159-162.
“Leading Figures in Education: Mortimer Adler,” Hillsdale College Classical Education Podcast, November 20th, 2020.
“What is Classical Education?,” The Imaginative Conservative, May 12th, 2020.
“Are the Great Books Enough to Revive Our Education System?,” The Imaginative Conservative, April 30th, 2020.
Biography
Dr. Erik Ellis is assistant professor of education at Hillsdale College. He earned a B.A. in the University Scholars Program at Baylor University with major concentrations in Greek and Latin and a minor concentration in History. He stayed at Baylor to earn an M.A. in History, and upon graduation, worked as a teacher for five years. He then received master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Notre Dame’s Classics Department and Medieval Institute, and then taught Latin, Greek, and Literature courses at the Universidad de los Andes (Chile) before returning to the US. As a researcher, Dr. Ellis focuses his efforts on tenth-century Byzantium and sixteenth-century Northern Europe, spending much time with Constantine Porphyrogennitos, Thomas More, Erasmus, and Juan Luis Vives, although he often allows himself to be distracted by J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. He is enthusiastic about sacred choral music, visiting remote places, and speaking classical and modern foreign languages.