Thomas D. McCreight
Classics Department Faculty

Office Information
HU 323A
(410) 617-2839
TMcCreight@Loyola.edu

Biography
Thomas D. McCreight received his A.B. at Brown University in Classics with Honors and recognition from Phi Beta Kappa in 1980, an M.A. in Classics from the City University of New York in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Duke University in 1991. He has received fellowships for extended study in Germany and the Netherlands. At Loyola he has taught Greek and Latin from beginning to advanced levels, Latin prose composition, literature in translation, etymology, and has instructed in the Alpha Program. In 2002-03 he served as Associate Professor at  The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.

Professor McCreight's research is concerned primarily with the Roman philosopher, intellectual and novelist Apuleius. He has published articles on magic, intertextuality, invective technique, and sacrificial imagery in Apuleius' Metamorphoses and Apology.  He is co-editor and co-author of Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche (Apuleius Metamorphoses IV.35-VI.26) (Groningen 2005) and served as an editor for Aspects of Apuleius' Golden Ass II (Groningen 1999). His research interests include Roman fiction, ancient magic, religion and rhetoric.