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Salvador Bartera

Salvador Bartera

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ADDRESS

Department of Classics 1106 McClung Tower University of Tennessee Knoxville, 37996-0413

CV

https://classics.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CV-Slavador-Bartera-Academic-March-2026.docx

Phone

(865) 974-5448

Salvador Bartera

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Roman Historiography (esp. Tacitus), the Classical Tradition, Renaissance Scholarship, Neo-Latin Jesuit Drama

Curriculum Vitae

 

Education

  • PhD, Classics, University of Virginia, 2008
  • Laurea, Classics, University of Urbino, 2002

Honors

  • Society for Classical Studies Outreach Prize (2020)
  • Classical Association of the Middle West and South Award for Outstanding Promotional Activity in the Schools, College/University level (2018-2019). Committee for the Promotion of Latin.
  • Margo Tytus Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Cincinnati (Spring 2018)
  • Mellon Summer Institute in Paleography, Getty Research Center (July 2017)
  • Mellon Summer Workshop, Digital Latin Library, University of Oklahoma (June 2017)
  • Living Latin in Paris, Paideia “Reginald Foster” Scholarship (2016)
  • College of A&S Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Non-Tenure Track Faculty Member, University of Tennessee (2012-2013)
  • Research Scholarship, Fondation Hardt, Switzerland (June 2008)

Selected Publications

  • S. Bartera and K.E. Shannon-Henderson (eds.), The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus (Oxford, 2025).
  • “Scipione Ammirato’s Political Tacitus”, in G. Bucchi and E. Zucchi (eds.), Tacitus ad litteram (Tacito alla lettera). University of Padua Press. Forthcoming
  • V.E. Pagán (ed.), The Tacitus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023). Contributor (14 entries, ca. 8,000 words): Volume I: Anteius Rufus (63), Caesellius Bassus (192-3), Calpurnius Fabatus (201-2), Commentaries (281-6), Cornelius Marcellus (294), Cornelius Salvidienus Orfitus (295-6), Faenius Rufus (415-6), Fonteius Capito (432), Iunia Lepida (589-90), Iunius Gallio Annaeanus (596-7); Volume II: Luccius Telesinus (652-3), Minucius Thermus (709), Ostorius Scapula (767), Volcacius Tullinus (1176)
  • R. Funari, Lectissimus Pensator Verborum. Tre Studi su Sallustio. Fonti sulla Vita e Fortuna a cura di Gerard Duursma (Bologna, 2019). Gnomon 95.1 (2023): 81-82
  • S. Malik, The Nero-Antichrist. Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm (Cambridge, 2020). CR 71 (2021): 1-3
  • “Tacitus in Italy: between Language and Politics”, Hermathena 199 (2020): 159-96
  • “Flavian fides in Tacitus’ Histories”, in A. Augoustakis, E. Buckley, C. Stocks (eds.),
    Fides in Flavian Literature. Phoenix: Supplementary Vol. LV (Toronto, 2019): 257-78

Teaching

Courses recently taught:

Latin Prose Composition 
Roman Civilization
Latin 351: Cicero and Sallust
Latin 431: Pliny and Tacitus
Latin 593: Caesar and Latin Prose Composition