Joseph A. Howley
Department of Classics
Associate Professor of Classics
Department Profile
Joseph A. Howley is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, where he teaches courses on Latin, ancient literature and culture, and the history of the book. He is the author of Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture (Columbia University Press, 2018) and various essays on the history of books, reading, and the material conditions of classical text from antiquity to the present, and a forthcoming book on the role of enslaved labor in the book culture of Ancient Rome. His writing about the Palestine solidarity movement on campuses and the liberal arts has appeared in The Nation. He has served on the University Senate and was Faculty Chair of Literature Humanities from 2022-2025.
