Glenn Maur
Graduate Student
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 Greco-Roman biography in global culture, augmenting traditional philological analysis with network and systems theory, cognitive psychology, and computer science. Current projects include 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, and a Medieval Cleopatra Reader, for which he is translating excerpts from over seventy-five medieval texts originally written in Arabic, Syriac, Greek, and Latin. 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, Rice University, and Notre Dame.