Pfundblog

This is my newer online presence at BGSU, which will eventually replace my old hand-built website (still online here).

I’m James M. Pfundstein. That’s me above, by a fragment of the monumental statue of Constantine I, preserved in the Musei Capitolini. It’s from summer 2008 when I was the onsite director for BGSU’s Academic Semester Abroad: Rome program, which I am about every other year.

My title here at BGSU is Lecturer. I received my Ph.D. in Classics (Latin and Greek) from the University of Minnesota in August 2000. My research interests are in Seneca’s dramatic poetry and ancient astronomy in poetry (especially but not exclusively Seneca’s). I teach a mix of courses in Latin and classical civilization (with a little Greek tossed in for variety sometimes). And, since Wikipedia knows, there is no reason you should not know that I also write fantasy under the “pseudoplume or nom de nym” of James Enge.