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Michael Arnush
marnush@skidmore.edu
518-580-5462

Michael Arnush is associate professor and chair of classics. He teaches in the Classics and History departments, offering a broad range of courses on Greek and Latin language, literature and ancient history. At Skidmore since 1989, he has served as the founding director of the Honors Forum, the Academic Festival and the First-Year Experience and is the 2011 recipient of the Phyllis A. Roth Distinguished Faculty Service Award. He publishes on the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi and on the emergence and evolution of democracy in ancient Athens. He is currently completing a book project entitled The Patina of History, which traces the journey of the Themistocles Decree, a commemorative inscription recalling the evacuation of Athens during the Persian Wars.

Barbara Black
bblack@skidmore.edu
518-580-5145

Barbara Black is professor of English at Skidmore College, where she teaches courses in Victorian literature and culture. She is the author of three books, including most recently Hotel London: How Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories (Ohio State UP 2019). She is also the co-editor of a new edition of the Anglo-South African writer Olive Schreiner’s Dreams, out from Broadview Press in the fall of 2020. In addition to her teaching at Skidmore, where she has received the Ciancio Award for Excellence in Teaching, she is on the graduate faculty at the University of the South’s School of Letters. Black’s essays have appeared in such venues as Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, the Dickens Studies Annual, Salmagundi, and the Grolier Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era.