Anne Saunders
Research Associate
Education
PhD, Renaissance literature, University of South Carolina, 1997
MA, Education, Columbia University, 1977
MA, Latin literature, Columbia University, 1975
BA, Latin literature, Wellesley College, 1972
Research Interests
War monuments, museums, and battlegrounds
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
Sommocolonia before World War II and The Battle of Sommocolonia, a translation of the book La Battaglia di Sommocoloniaby Vittorio Lino Biondi and Dario Giannini. Lucca: 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
2023. “A Tour of Representative WWII Museums and Memorials in Italy.” South Carolina Military Museum, Columbia SC (May 17).
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 GA (November 16).
2018. “Where Memories Survive: World War II Monuments and Museums in Italy.” Unitarian Church Forum, Charleston SC (November 18).
2014. "An Update on the Teaching of Latin in Russia," Classical Association of the Atlantic States annual meeting, Philadelphia PA (October 12).
2012. “How Travel Narratives and Guidebooks Shape National Identity,” American Association of Italian Studies, Charleston SC (May 4).
2012. “The Merits of Translating Resistance Literature,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Rochester NY (March 17).
2004. “On Popularizing Erasmus,” Renaissance Society of America, New York City (April 4).
2003. “Setting an Example: A Function of Literature in the Study of Ethics,” Theodore Guerard Fund Lecture, College of Charleston (April 1).
2000. “Reflections on Marriage in Early Modern Europe: Giovanni Nevizzano’s Sylva nuptialis,” International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Cambridge University (August 3).
1998. “Shakespeare and Ciceronianism,” Sixth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies, Cambridge University (September).
1996. “Lively Latin: Latin Comedy in Sixteenth-Century Cambridge,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Vanderbilt University (April).
1994. “Milton on the Value of Classical Learning,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (October).
COURSES TAUGHT, 1978 TO present
At the College of Charleston: All levels of Latin, and Greek tragedy in translation
At Charleston County public and private schools: Remedial English and elementary Latin
Details available on request