E. Christian Kopff Spotlight from the Newsletter
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- E. Christian Kopff, the newest member of the NLE Scholarship
Committee, was born in Brooklyn, NY, and studied Greek and Latin
at St. Paul's School, Haverford, College, and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has taught at the University
of Colorado, Boulder, since 1973 and is currently Associate Director
of the Honors Program there. He has lived for some five of the
past 25 years in Rome as teacher at the Intercollegiate Center
for Classical Studies and as recipient of grants fro the American
Academy in Rome, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and
the University of Colorado. His wife, Carmen, teaches French
at the University of Colorado. The Kopffs have two sons, Barrett
and Theodore. Chris, who was instrumental in founding the Colorado
Classics Association, ins the editor of a critical edition of
Euripides' Bacchae and is the author of over 100 articles and
reviews on scholarly and popular subjects. His essays on Vergil
have appeared in many international journals. The Intercollegiate
Studies Institute has recently published a collection of his
essays, The Devil Know Latin: Why America needs the Classical
Tradition.
- It is a pleasure to welcome Chris to the Scholarship Committee.
