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Peter White is an American classicist and professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. [1] He studies Latin literature and Roman poetics. [2]
He is the author of Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome (1993). [3] The book received the American Philological Association’s Goodwin Award in 1995. [4] White also received the University of Chicago’s Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. [5]
White earned a B.A. from Boston College in 1963 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972. [6] He has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1968. [7]