Daniel Conner

Promoted to Clinical Associate Professor
School of Languages & Culture
conner62@purdue.edu

Daniel Conner completed his PhD and master’s in Classics at the University of Washington and received a bachelor’s degree from Willamette University in Classical Studies. He also completed a classical seminar in Rome through the University of Washington Rome Center in 2016.

He received a Presidential Fellowship through the University of Washington Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (2013-18), the Phillip and Estelle DeLacy Fellowship for Classical Seminar in Rome (2016), and the Graduate Recognition Award from the Phillip and Estelle DeLacy Endowed Fellowship Fund (2015).

Conner’s research interests include Imperial Literature, Latin epic (specifically the work of Silius Italicus), Neoteric poetry and Neo-Latin poetry. He has presented at the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest and the Classical Association of the Midwest and South.

Conner is an award-winning undergraduate teacher with experience in language instruction, broad literature and culture courses, and specialized writing and research instruction as part of Purdue’s Cornerstone program.