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Phone: 713.743.3306
Email: richarda@central.uh.edu
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Richard H. Armstrong (BA, University of Chicago; M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University) is Associate Professor of Classical Studies. His research areas are in classical receptions, specifically in the history of psychoanalysis and translation studies. He is author of A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World (Cornell UP, 2005). With Elizabeth Vandiver, he is co-editor of Remusings: Essays on the Translation of Classical Poetry (Classical and Modern Literature [2007] 27.1). With Alexandra Lianeri he is coeditor of A Companion to the Translation of Classical Epic (Wiley-Blackwell, January 2025) and Classical Translation Studies: Transfigurations in Reception and Cultural History (Oxford UP, 2025). He is also a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Classical Reception (forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic 2026). Recently he co-curated the exhibition Freud's Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire at the Freud Museum London with Miriam Leonard and Daniel Orrells.
His courses include Roman, Jew, and Christian (CLAS 3375), The Roman Republic (CLAS 3341), Law and Society in Ancient Rome (CLAS 3350), and Myth and Modernity (CLAS/WCL 4353)— all available for petitioned Honors credit. In addition to being a member of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, he was an Honors College faculty member for 14 years. He has won numerous teaching and mentorship awards, including the Provost Teaching Excellence and Career Awards, the Nationally Competitive Scholarship Mentor Award, and the CLASS Distinguished Faculty Award.