Glenn Maur

PhD Candidate

E-mail: gmaur@g.ucla.edu

Glenn has received bachelor’s degrees in Classics and French from Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University and a master’s degree in Classics and Digital Humanities from Tufts University. In 2018, he was awarded the Concordia Foundation Fellowship to study Classical Arabic at Harvard Divinity School. Since arriving at UCLA, Glenn has joined the team of researchers and scholars working on the Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library Project, contributing to the cataloging and collation of the Arabic manuscript collection preserved at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Mount Sinai, Egypt. His dissertation, Hyperhistories: Biographical Networks of the Ancient Greeks and Romans from Medieval Baghdad to Modern Medan, deals with the reception of Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, Emperor Julian the Apostate, Julius Caesar, and Aesop in world culture, utilizing a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to bridge traditional philology with network and systems theory, cognitive psychology and memory studies, as well as semiotics, participatory media, and computer science. Glenn is also currently 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. He has presented research at conferences hosted by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Willamette University, Brandeis University, University of Virginia, Western Michigan University, and Rice University.

Education

Ph.D., UCLA, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Summer Intensive Intermediate-Advanced Syriac, Beth Mardutho
M.A., Tufts University, Classics and Digital Humanities
Summer Language Program in Classical Arabic, Harvard Divinity School
B.A., Arizona State University, Classics
B.A., Arizona State University, French

Publications

Batman International: Essays on the Global History of the Dark Knight, contributing co-editor (in preparation)
“Alexander Romance” in Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān Online (Brill) (2022)
“Qiṣṣat Dhī al-Qarnayn” in The Database of Religious History (University of British Columbia) (2022)
“Julian Romance” in The Database of Religious History (University of British Columbia) (2022)
“From the End to the Beginning: Socrates as Iconoclast in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa and the Contestation of his Biography in Greek and Arabic Sources.” Viator 50.3 (2019)
Greek Dependency Treebank Commentary of the Life of Aesop with J. Matthew Harrington, Ph.D. (The Perseids Project) (2019)

Conference Presentations

“Emperor Julian as Guardian of Ancient Philosophical Thought in the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadīm,” Texas Medieval Association Conference (2021)
“That Which Does Not Speak, That Which Does Not Hear: Socrates as Iconoclast in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa,” International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (2019)
“Reading the Life of Aesop as Slave Narrative: Object Bodies, Literacy, and Resistance in the Ancient Novel,” Brandeis University Classics Graduate Conference (2018)
“The Enfreakment of Thersites: The Deformed Body as Spectacle in Homer’s Iliad,” University of Virginia Classics Graduate Colloquium (2018)
“The Road to Babylon: Interpreting the Ethnology of India in the Greek Texts of the Alexander Romance,” North-West Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World (2016)
“Priest, Paradise, and Prophecy: A European Perspective on an Episode of the Alexander Romance,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference (2016)

Languages

Classical Arabic
Indonesian
Ancient Greek
Latin
Syriac
French
German