Scott Scullion, associate professor of classics and chair of the department, has taken a position at Worcester College of Oxford University. He holds the titles of fellow and tutor in classics of Worcester College and university lecturer in Greek and Latin language and literature.
A member of the Union faculty since 1989, he spent a sabbatical year at Oxford three years ago. He interviewed for the Worcester position in July, delivering a paper, “Maenads and Men,” in which he argued that the female followers of Dionysus carried on their rituals in the presence of men.
Scullion holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto, and master's and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. A Toronto native who holds Canadian citizenship, he is the first Canadian ever to be appointed to a position in classics at Oxford, where there are three Americans on the fifty-two-member faculty.
“I'm hugely excited about going to Oxford,” says Scullion, “which is probably the best place in the world for a classicist to be. The libraries are superb, unmatched elsewhere, and the place is full of first-rate scholars, both those who work there and the many who come to visit from all over the world.”