Michael Goyette took his PhD from The Graduate Center in May 2015. He completed his dissertation, Roman Tragedy and Medicine: Language and Imagery of Illness in Seneca and Celsus, under the supervision of Dr. Craig Williams. In support of this work, he was awarded a competitive dissertation completion fellowship from The Graduate Center.

Michael also took MA and MPhil degrees in Classics at The Graduate Center, and a BA in Classical Studies: Greek from Vassar College. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Classics Department at Brooklyn College, where he teaches various courses, including Classical Cultures (a core curriculum course on Greek and Roman literature and culture), Greek and Roman Mythology, The Self and Society, Advanced Latin: Roman Drama, and Ancient Medicine: The Classical Roots of the Medical Humanities, a course completely of his own design. To further engage his own ancient medicine students, and to provide resources to the interested general public, he has developed an Open Educational Resources website. Michael has also taught courses on Elementary Latin and The Greek and Latin Roots of the English Language at City College, and Intermediate Latin (focusing on Vergil’s Aeneid) at Hunter College. In recent semesters, he has successfully implemented Team-Based Learning (TBL) pedagogy in several courses after receiving training in this method from Brooklyn College’s TBL Academy in 2013. His teaching efforts have been recognized with multiple awards, including Brooklyn College’s 2015 Award for Excellence in Teaching for a Part-Time Faculty Member.

Michael’s current research interests include ancient medicine, Greek and Roman tragedy, the Roman novel, and the pedagogy of Classics. He has published three articles in respected academic journals, and he regularly presents his scholarship at national and international level conferences. He is currently working on an article about representations of madness in Latin literature, and he is in the process of developing a book expanding upon his dissertation.