Glenn Maur
Graduate Student
Before arriving at UCLA, Glenn received bachelor’s degrees in Classics and French, a master’s degree in Classics and Digital Humanities, and attended intensive summer language programs at Harvard and Beth Mardutho. His dissertation, Hyperhistory: A Cognitive Approach to Translation and Biographical Writing in Scribal and Literary Cultures, deals with the reception of Greco-Roman biography in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, augmenting traditional philological analysis with cognitive studies in conceptual and analogical thought, transmission and memory, and associative learning. Glenn is involved in collaborations with researchers and labs in departments of Psychology at multiple universities, participating in the design and implementation of experimental research and fostering innovative transdisciplinary dialogues and partnerships between STEM and the Humanities in Classics and Medieval Studies. Glenn has also collaborated with the team of researchers working on the Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library Project, contributing to the cataloging of the Greek and Arabic manuscript collection preserved at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Mount Sinai, Egypt. As an extension of his work on scribal culture and the art of manuscript illustration, Glenn also teaches a course on international comics. Current publishing projects include the preparation of an anthology, The Medieval Cleopatra Reader, for which he is translating excerpts from over seventy-five medieval texts originally written in Arabic, Syriac, Greek, and Latin and co-editing a book on the reception of Batman in global media, contributing his own articles on regional adaptations of the character in Arabic and Indonesian language comics.