Ms. Marilyn Bisch

Ms. Marilyn Bisch
Senior Instructor
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Department of; Dean's Office (HC)
Arts and Sciences, College of
Root Hall A-156
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812-237-8272

Education

  • M.A. - Humanities, Indiana State University - 1996

Teaching Interests

  • Latin and ancient Greek languages, literature, and culture; the influence of Classical languages, literature, and culture in the post-Classical world.

Research Interests

  • Language as symbolic action in Pindar's epinician odes, Oscar Wilde's 1882 American Lecture tour, the history of sanitary engineering in connection to the redemptive value of beauty in daily life
LAT 101,102, 201, 202 -- Beginning and Intermediate Latin language
GRK 101, 102, 201, 202, 394 -- Ancient Greek language
GH 101 "Classical Cultures of Greece and Rome"

My research centers around the interdisciplinary study of ancient Greek and Latin language, literature, and culture with special focus on the influence of Classical societies in the modern world.

This interest in Classical influences on later humanistic thought has led me to study of the life and works of the Victorian Irish author Oscar Wilde, who was himself an excellent student of Classical languages and literature. I am especially involved in research on Wilde's 1882 American lecture tour and his belief in the redemptive value of beauty in everyday life.