Loyola University Chicago

Department of Classical Studies

Faculty

Richard Hutchins

Title/s:  Assistant Professor

Specialty Area: Ancient Science, Ancient Philosophy, Environmental Humanities, Women Writers in Antiquity

Office #:  Crown Center 573

Phone: 773-508-3665

Email: rhutchins1@luc.edu

Degrees

Ph.D., Princeton University

Selected Publications

Publications:

  • "Feeling like a Species:  The Environmental Future in Lucretius." In Anticipatory Enrironmental Histories:  Narratives of Coming Nature(s) from Antiquity to the Anthropocene, (eds.) Christopher Schliephake & Evi Zemanek, Lexington Books (Environment & Society Series). 2023, 97-113.
  • "Animals as Individuals in Anyte of Tegea" Helios, 49.1, 2022, 57-80.
  • "Lucretius" theory of temporality:  Aetas in de Rerum Natura." In Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity, (eds.)  Richard Faure, Simon-Pierre Valli, Arnaud Zucker, Berlin: de Gryter, 2022, 79-100.
  • "Genes and Morality in Ancient Rome" Antigone, 2021. 
  • "Animal Revolt and Lines of Flight in Lucretius, Book Five." Ramus, 49. 1-2, December 2020, 133-154.
  • "Technology Won't Save Us:  Why Promethean Problems Can't Have Promethean Solutions," Eidolon, February 24, 2020. 
  • "Euripides' Orestes at the Hellenikon Idyllion." Didaskalia, 15.2, 2019.
  • "Making the Absent Referent Present:  The Sacrifice of Women and Animals in Lucretius." In Bestiarium: Representations of Humans and Animals.  Milan: Mimesis International, 2018, 37-61.
  • "Interspecies Ethics and Collaborative Survival in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura." In Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity, (ed.) Christopher Schliephake, Lexington Books (Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series), 2017, 91-111.

Recent Papers:

  • “Nonhuman Swarms and the Limits of Empire: Turba/Turbo in Lucretius and Serres.” Rethinking Relations: Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities, Technische Universität Dresden, November 2022.
  • “Dionysus and Queer Ecological Vision in Madeleine George’s Hurricane Diane.” Queer and the Classical, Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity, University of Oxford, April 2022.
  • “A Way of Seeing: Technicity in Prometheus Bound.” Antiquity and the Anthropocene, University College Dublin, February 2021. 

Works in Progress:

  • Lucretius Against Human Exceptionalism (book project)