Luca Grillo

Kellogg Faculty Fellow Luca Grillo is the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Collegiate Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame. While a scholar of Latin prose, Grillo works on several topics related to contemporary dynamics of democratic rule and governance: he's one of the leading experts on the rule of Julius Caesar, and in particular Caesar’s relationship to the Roman people and democracy; he studies the practice of rhetoric as the art of persuading people; and he has a forthcoming book on forms of popular participation in public life in Rome.

Grillo has written books, given papers, and published articles and contributions on various topics, especially Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil.

Previously, Grillo was a faculty member at Amherst College (2008-13) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2013-18). He has taught Latin and Greek at different levels and courses in ancient civilization, like The Romans, History of Rome, The Age of Augustus and Ancient and Modern Rhetoric.

He earned a PhD from Princeton University in 2008. As a graduate student, he won a one-year Schwartz fellowship at the American Numismatic Society in NY, a summer stipend at the Kommission für alte Geschichte und Epigraphik in Munich, and a graduate teaching award from Princeton University.