Anne Saunders

Anne Saunders

Research Associate

Education

PhD, Renaissance literature, University of South Carolina
MA, Education, Columbia University
MA, Latin literature, Columbia University
BA, Latin literature, Wellesley College

Research Interests

Resistance movements in World War II Italy 
War monuments and museums
Methods for teaching Latin

Courses Taught

All levels of Latin; Greek tragedy in translation

Publications

Books

2016. A Travel Guide to World War II Sites in Italy: Museums, Monuments, and Battlegrounds, 2nd edition. CreateSpace
2010. A Travel Guide to World War II Sites in Italy: Museums, Monuments, and Battlegrounds, 1st edition. CreateSpace

Translations

2011. Sommocolonia before World War II and The Battle of Sommocolonia, a translation of the book La Battaglia di Sommocolonia by Vittorio Lino Biondi and Dario Giannini. Garfagnana Editrice.
2002. Translation of Bathsua Makin’s Latin poems in L. Churchill et al., ed. Women Writing Latin, vol. 3. New York: Routledge. pp. 258-269

Articles

August 2021. “From the Army to the Resistance,” WWII History: 16-23
2019. “Four Places to Remember the Holocaust in Italy,” The Local: https://www.thelocal.it/20190731/four-places-to-remember-the-holocaust-in-italy/
2005. “Reading Erasmus in an Interdisciplinary Course on Marriage,” Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 25: 58-66
2002. “Bathsua Reginald Makin,” in L. Churchill et al., ed. Women Writing Latin, vol. 3. New York: Routledge. pp. 247-258
1993. “The Value of Latin Prose Composition,” Classical Journal 88.4: 385-392

Presentations

2019. "World War II and Identity: The Example of Colonel Giuseppe Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo and the Clandestine Military Force at Rome." South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 16, 2019
2018. “Where Memories Survive: World War II Monuments and Museums in Italy.” Unitarian Church Forum, Charleston, SC. November 18, 2018
2014. "An Update on the Teaching of Latin in Russia," Classical Association of the Atlantic States annual meeting, Philadelphia PA, October 12, 2014
2012. “How Travel Narratives and Guidebooks Shape National Identity,” American Association of Italian Studies, Charleston SC, May 4, 2012
2012. “The Merits of Translating Resistance Literature,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Rochester NY, March 17, 2012
2004. “On Popularizing Erasmus,” Renaissance Society of America, New York City, April 4, 2004
2003. “Setting an Example: A Function of Literature in the Study of Ethics,” Theodore Guerard Fund Lecture, College of Charleston, April 1, 2003
2000. “Reflections on Marriage in Early Modern Europe: Giovanni Nevizzano’s Sylva nuptialis,” International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Cambridge University, August 1-5, 2000
1998. “Shakespeare and Ciceronianism,” Sixth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies, Cambridge University, September 1998
1996. “Lively Latin: Latin Comedy in Sixteenth-Century Cambridge,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Vanderbilt University, April 1996
1994. “Milton on the Value of Classical Learning,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 1994