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Gregory P. Stringer has taught Latin at Burlington High School, Burlington, MA, since 2012. He earned the school’s Aggarwal Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2021. Stringer was also named by his peers as the winner of the Classical Association of Massachusetts Excellence in the Teaching of Classics Award in 2022, and the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association's Elaine Batting Award for Outstanding Teacher of Latin in 2014. Stringer earned BAs in history and in classics at Boston University. He received the Wilcox Award for Best Graduate Research Paper when he was earning his masters in history with a concentration in medieval Europe at the University of New Hampshire. Stringer also has a masters in Latin and Classical Humanities from the University of Massachusetts Boston. He served as a teacher and program director for the Conventiculum Bostoniense for several years and taught the graduate course “Rome for Teachers of Latin” for UMass Boston. This past summer he co-led Scribendo Discimus, a Vergilian Society teacher prep program in Rome and Naples. Stringer is coauthor, with Jacqueline Carlon, of Bolchazy-Carducci’s forthcoming A Pliny Workbook and Teacher’s Manual designed for the new AP Latin curriculum.
Jaqueline Carlon is a Pliny scholar of international stature, who has written the forthcoming new textbook, Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts, designed to address the required and suggested Pliny selections for AP Latin. Carlon's work includes other suggested readings that pair nicely with the prescribed Pliny letters. She is also coauthoring A Pliny Workbook with Gregory P. Stringer for the new curriculum. Carlon is the author of Pliny’s Women: Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Selected Letters from Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae,, Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentaries (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Carlon is Professor Emerita from the University of Massachusetts Boston where she has served as department chair and director of graduate studies. She has worked extensively with Latin teacher candidates and is an expert in Latin pedagogy. Carlon’s experience as a high school teacher and language department chair at Academy of Notre Dame has served her well, especially with teacher preparation. Carlon earned the 2017 Society for Classical Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Collegiate Level. She is the 2008 recipient of the Classical Association of New England’s prestigious Barlow-Beach Award for Distinguished Service. She served as president of CANE in 2005. She is also the recipient of the Rallis Award from the Boston University Humanities Foundation. Carlon is an expert on the application of Second Language Acquisition Theory to the teaching of classical languages. She spearheaded establishing the Conventiculum Bostoniense in 2006.
