7/17/2023 0 Comments Institutum latinum![]() WM: A little bit of English! … Stephen, I hope you won’t mind talking about your creative work. SB: Definitely! I do a little bit of English once in awhile too. WM: In German, Spanish and Latin certainly… SB: (Laughs) No, I don’t feel comfortable in all of them. Do you feel comfortable writing in all of your languages? In your work you quote Turkish and Hungarian, you use vocabulary drawn from Old and Middle Indic. You strike me as a writer who is on very familiar terms with many languages. WM: But I’ve heard you speak on linguistics, and I’ve looked at your creative work. More linguistics than philology, I think. SB: Germanic philology, which I often call Germanic linguistics, both so that people can understand what I’m talking about and also because it was How ironic! You hold the doctorate in German… WM: Your busiest classes, the ones most in demand, are in the Spanish language, even though you have no graduate training in it. I took my doctoral degree in Germanic Philology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. I then taught for quite awhile, mostly in Latin, and eventually went to the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where I took a second master’s degree, this time in German. SB: I have a bachelor’s degree in Classics from UCLA and a master’s in Classics from UC Berkeley I was an ABD, passed my doctoral oral exams in Classics at Berkeley, but didn’t finish my dissertation, which I was writing on Lucan. Do you hold advanced degrees in all these languages? Stephen, you really are a man of many parts in the classroom: German, Spanish, Latin and Greek. We’ve used this in the classroom at Western Washington University, and I can’t praise it highly enough. , the text you’ve been composing to develop colloquial skills in Latin. SB: Trying to have a Latin Program there both because I think it’s a service to the community, and also because I want to use my students as guinea pigs, so to speak, for developing my materials, and, maybe I can eventually send somebody to Terry for his Institute so that they can study there. Right now I’m so very much involved in Latin, that that’s pretty much all I’ve been thinking of… SB: Well, they’ve changed over the years. May I ask you what your academic goals are in terms of your teaching? WM: Your institution is fortunate to have a Classics component. And Classical Studies: I often teach a course called the Greek and Latin Elements of English-we call it Classics 100. SB: I teach German and Spanish on a regular basis, and Latin. Talk to us a little about what you're doing at WVC WM: Stephen, the West Coast of the USA is not known for its commitment to Latin and Classical Greek, and yet in the city of Wenatchee, in central Washington, at the beginning of the third millennium AD, we have a poet creating an immense magnum opus Monumentum he is in the process of creating. A man whose scholarly scope and profoundly intellectual vision are set like gems in his warm personality, Stephen discusses with us the extraordinary Latin World's Muse editor was attending the 2002 Conventiculum Latinum-Terence Tunberg's colloquial-Latin conference held annually at the University of Kentucky-she had the unique privilege of interviewing Stephen Berard, professor of World Languages at Wenatchee Valley College.
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