|  Dr. Holly Sypniewski, assistant professor of classics at Millsaps College, was recently named the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Young Faculty Award. The award carries with it a cash prize of $1,000 and a one-semester release from teaching to support the winner’s scholarly activities. Sypniewski plans to spend her release time developing a college-level text and commentary on Horace’s “Ars Poetica.”
“I am so pleased and proud,” said Dr. Michael Gleason, who teaches with Sypniewski in the Department of Classical Studies.
Sypniewski graduated cum laude from the University of Cincinnati with a B.A. in Classics. She then earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has taught at Millsaps since 2002, striving, as she says, “to emphasize the skills of critical thinking and expression” in all her classes. She also “aims to educate students to analyze antiquity without modern cultural biases, while valuing important correlations between past and present.”
As a scholar, Sypniewski works with both Greek and Latin texts. She is the author of two articles—one of which has been accepted for publication and the other of which is under review, a third article scheduled to be submitted for publication soon, seven conference papers and six invited lectures. She was also selected to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar in 2005.
Sypniewski’s book about “Ars Poetica” is intended to make Horace’s influential poem about poetry accessible to undergraduate students or to readers in other academic areas who have an interest in literary theory without perfect Latin. She will devote much of her release time to writing and hopes to complete her book by December 2007.
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