Glenn Maur

Graduate Student

E-mail: gmaur@g.ucla.edu

Glenn received bachelor’s degrees in both Classics and French from the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University in 2016. While at ASU, he was also a research assistant and bibliographer for the Iter Gateway digital humanities project, a joint venture between the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the University of Toronto, and taught beginning and intermediate Latin for Great Hearts Academy schools. In 2019, Glenn received his master’s degree in Classics and Digital Humanities from Tufts University, during which time he was awarded a Concordia Foundation Fellowship to study Classical Arabic at Harvard Divinity School in the summer of 2018. 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 focuses on the reception of Greco-Roman biography in premodern Arabic, especially the Lives of Socrates, Alexander, Cleopatra, and Emperor Julian the Apostate, and phenomena of transculturalism and translation more generally. Glenn is currently in the process of co-editing a book on the reception of Batman in global media: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and East, South, and Southeast Asia, contributing his own articles on uniquely regional adaptations of the character in Arabic and Indonesian language comics. Glenn has presented research at conferences hosted by the ACMRS, Willamette University, Brandeis University, the University of Virginia, Western Michigan University, and Rice University.

Education

Ph.D., UCLA, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (in progress)
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

Articles

Batman International: Essays on the Global History of the Dark Knight from the Golden to the Modern Age, contributing co-editor (in preparation)
“Alexander Romance” in Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān Online (Brill) (under review)
“Qiṣṣat Dhī al-Qarnayn” in The Database of Religious History (University of British Columbia)
“Julian Romance” in The Database of Religious History (University of British Columbia)
“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)