Robert Boughner

Chair, Department of Humanities

Professor, Classics

Education:

Ph.D, classics, Johns Hopkins University.

M.A., classics, Johns Hopkins University.

A.B., classics, Duke University.

Expertise:

Latin poetry, latin pedagogy, Greek and Roman religion.

Background:

Dr. Boughner came to University of the Sciences in Philadelphia in 1999 and had the arduous task of leading a humanities department within a science institution. Part of the mission of Boughner’s department is to teach students to read more effectively and to write more clearly. This goal was evident in the Humanities Department’s creation of a biomedical writing program, the first such program offered in a U.S. institution.

Before coming to USP in 1999, Dr. Boughner taught courses in classical studies as a visiting professor at Howard University. From 1995-98, he was a professor of classics and the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at the American College of Greece in Athens. His time in Greece gave him a better awareness of his expertise in Greco-Roman religion and experiences. He had the good fortune of being in Athens when archaeologists uncovered Aristotle’s Lyceum, the school where the great thinker taught. Prior to his work in Greece, he was the chair of the Department of Classics, Philosophy and Religion at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Va.

He co-authored a book, Catullus and Horace: Selections from their Lyric Poetry, which was printed in 1988.