Christopher Gutierrez

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Languages/Literatures: Ancient Greek, Latin, English (Early Modern), Spanish

Christopher received his B.A. in Classics and English from Columbia University (2025). He is interested in the classical reception of archaic Greek lyric poetry, the rhetorical armature of the Platonic dialogues, the afterlife of classical rhetorical theory, early 16th century humanism, and late Elizabethan (and early Jacobean) literature. He received the Douglas Gardner Caverly Prize in Classics for his senior thesis “Shakespeare’s Lucretian Dream: The Renaissance Rediscovery of the Epicurean Conscience Tradition,” a project supervised by Prof. Kathy Eden. Over the summer, Christopher is an Instructor of literature at DaVinci Camp Summer Institute at UC Berkeley and Caltech.