Kristina Meinking

Professor of Classical Languages and Trustee Chair of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Department: World Languages and Cultures

Carlton Building, Office 220 2125 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244

Brief Biography

Kristina Meinking is Professor of Classical Languages and Coordinator of the Classical Studies Major. Meinking’s current fascination is with the late antique historian Ammianus Marcelllinus; she's producing a full translation and accompanying commentary of his Res Gestae. In her capacity as coordinator of the classical studies program, she has mentored numerous students, developed the classics curriculum, and has taught several courses in Latin, ancient Greek, mythology, civilization, and reception. Although eager to talk all things teaching, Meinking is particularly interested in course design, questions of interdisciplinarity, self-paced learning, ungrading, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

News & Notes

Education

PhD (2010). Classics. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA.

BA (2002). Classics and Religion. Skidmore College. Saratoga Springs, NY.

Employment History

2023-present
Professor of Classical Languages
Coordinator of the Classical Studies Program

2017-present
Associate Professor of Classical Languages
Coordinator of the Classical Studies Program

2012-2017
Assistant Professor of Classical Languages
Coordinator of the Classical Studies Program

2010-2012
Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin and Classical Studies
Coordinator of the Classical Studies Program

Fall 2009
Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Classics, Scripps College

Leadership Positions

Assistant Director for Assessment, Elon Core Curriculum 2019-2023
Interim Associate Director of CATL 2017-2019

Publications

with E. Hall, “Letting Go of Grades: Creating an Environment of Autonomy and a Focus on Learning for High-Achieving Students,” Teaching & Learning Inquiry 10 (2022) https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.10.21

“Assessing for Learning: The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning and Campus Assessment Culture,” in Souza, J. M. and Rose, T. A. (eds.) Exemplars of Assessment in Higher Education: Diverse Approaches to Addressing Accreditation Standards. Stylus, 2021.

“Arnobius and Lactantius,” in Edwards, M. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Philosophy. Routledge (2020), 438-449.

with E. Hall, “Co-Creation in the Classroom: Challenge, Community, and Collaboration,” College Teaching 68.4 (2020), 189-198.

with P. Felten, S. Tennant, and K. Westover (’19), “Partnering with Disciplinary Faculty and Students: Navigating Troublesome and Transformational Relationships,” in Gibson, C. and

Mader, S. (eds.) Building Teaching and Learning Communities: Creating Shared Meaning and Purpose. Chicago, IL. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2019.

“Anger and the Apologists: Lactantius in his North African Context,” Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa (2017) 53.3, 413-434.

“Between Scylla and Charybdis: Navigating a Course in Self-Paced Learning,” Interdisciplinary Humanities 34.3 (Fall 2017), 38-52.

“Veni, Legi, Scripsi: On Writing in the Elementary Latin Sequence,” Classical World 110.4 (2017), 545-565.

“Competency and Collaboration: An Approach to the Second Semester Latin Course,” Teaching Classical Languages 8.1 (2017), 1-36.

Co-Author with Megan Sweeney, Elon University ’16. “The Peer Mentor: A Pivotal Teaching and Learning Partner in Elementary Latin,” Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education, September 2016. online: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1150&context=tlthe

“Sicut traditur a Platone: Lactantius on Plato” in Plato in the Third Sophistic. ed. Ryan C. Fowler. (Boston/Berlin: DeGruyter, 2014), 101-120.

Co-Author, “Adapting Content from a Massive Open Online Course to a Liberal Arts Setting,” in Making the Connection: Six Studies of Technology and Collaboration in Liberal Arts Institutions. (Atlanta: Associated Colleges of the South, 2014), 27-45.

“Eusebius and Lactantius: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Christian Theology” in Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and Innovations. ed. Aaron Johnson and Jeremy Schott. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013), 325-347.

“Anger and Adjudication: the Political Relevance of De ira Dei,” Journal of Late Antiquity 6.1 (2013), 84–107.