Classics majors don't just study Latin — they live in it, and Sarah's undergraduate work means she's spent years translating original texts across genres from poetry to philosophy. She teaches all four levels with particular strength in helping students internalize the subjunctive mood and indirect discourse, two areas where rote memorization fails but understanding the underlying logic pays off.

Peter's history degree means he's spent years working with primary sources where Latin isn't decorative — it's the language of legal charters, church records, and the political documents that shaped Western civilization. That historical grounding gives him a concrete reason to teach case endings and verb forms: students learn to parse real inscriptions and texts, not just textbook exercises. Rated 4.8 by students.

Spanning Latin through AP level alongside Spanish, Italian, and German, Jamie brings a polyglot's instinct for how Latin's grammar echoes across the language families it shaped — making case endings and conjugation patterns feel like familiar territory rather than abstract rules. His approach leans on comprehensible input and story-driven immersion, so students absorb vocabulary and syntax through context-rich reading rather than isolated memorization. A Master's in Special Education also means he's skilled at adapting pacing and methods to fit how each learner actually processes new material.

Between a history major at Oberlin, a semester at Trinity College Dublin, and time in a maritime studies program steeped in classical navigation texts, Bennett has encountered Latin in the places it actually lived — legal documents, church records, and the scholarly traditions that shaped European history. He brings that context into grammar lessons, connecting declension patterns and verb forms to the real texts where students can see the language doing actual work. Rated 5.0 by students.

Claudia's classical studies degree means she didn't just take Latin — she lived inside the language across all four levels, reading original texts alongside the art historical sources that rely on Latin inscriptions, dedications, and catalog terminology. Her library science training adds a researcher's instinct for tracking down how words shift meaning across centuries, which makes vocabulary and grammar lessons feel less like rote memorization and more like detective work. Rated 5.0 by students.

Melissa studied Latin as an undergraduate alongside History and Italian, giving her a deep feel for how the language's grammar, syntax, and vocabulary interconnect rather than treating each declension table as an isolated exercise. She's particularly strong on sight-reading strategies — teaching students to parse complex periodic sentences by identifying main clauses first, then layering in subordinate structures.

Medieval Studies at Tulane meant reading primary Latin texts — charters, chronicles, and liturgical prose — not just conjugation drills. Erik uses that immersion to teach declensions, verb forms, and sentence structure through real passages, connecting grammar rules to the literature that made them matter. Students translating Caesar or Virgil get a tutor who reads Latin as a living language, not a puzzle to decode.

Having studied English, French, and Latin through multiple levels, Sarah approaches Latin grammar as a bridge between languages — showing students how mastering accusative and ablative cases in Latin illuminates the French and English structures they already know. Her 5.0 rating and background in essay writing and literature mean she's especially effective at turning translation exercises into close-reading practice, where students learn to hear the rhetoric and style embedded in the Latin itself.

I'm Fabrizio, an Italian student living in New York City since 2012. I did my studies in the Humanities as well as in Science. I graduated from Sapienza University in Rome in Philosophy in 2010 with the maximum grade, and I have another degree in Physics that will be completed in the first months of 2013.

I am a graduate of Wesleyan University who is now based in the New York Metropolitan Area. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Literatures & Cultures and in History, with a focus on U.S. History and Latin American History. I also plan to pursue a doctorate in History. I have been teaching in various capacities for many years now, and have worked with students from Pre-K all the way to high school seniors. While I enjoy all subjects, I am most passionate about Spanish and History. I believe a nuanced understanding of diverse histories and languages, with an emphasis on those of the underrepresented, is an invaluable tool to which all students should have access. I hope to sow understanding and awareness in students of all backgrounds, to empower their voices, and to make learning fun!

I am excited to learn from my students while also imparting some of my excitement for and interest in my various disciplines.