Professor Merritt’s role as a teacher, primarily of Greek language, texts, and culture, is informed by his research-based interest in providing students with the insights of historical and comparative linguistics both into the Classical languages themselves and into the development of the cultures within which speakers understood and made sense of their world. His research, involving nominal morphology and Homeric Philology, is chiefly dedicated to uncovering these modes of thought by identifying the systematic relationships of word-families in Greek, Latin, and their Indo-European relatives. He enjoys learning from and sharing with all students and colleagues the fruits of research pertaining to our understanding of ourselves as echoic inheritors of various ancient worlds.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Assistant Teaching Professor, College - Department of Classics