Robert G. Babcock
Curator, Early Books, Beinecke Library
Latin paleography, Medieval Latin
Telephone:432-2968
email: robert.babcock@yale.edu
Robert G. Babcock holds an M.A.(1981) and a Ph.D. (1983) in Classics from Duke University. He studied at the Institut für Mittellateinische Philologie of the Freie Universität Berlin as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1984) and was elected a member of the Comité Internationale de Paléographie Latine in 1998. His research interests include Latin paleography, textual criticism and transmission of Latin authors, Medieval Latin, Greek papyrology, and the reception of the classics in American literature. His publications, largely concerned with medieval manuscripts of classical Latin literature, have appeared in several books and numerous journals, including Scriptorium (2000)and Aevum (2000).
