Spoken Latin

Title of case study

Promotion of active Latin use, particularly Spoken Latin, as a pedagogical and research tool, both nationally and internationally.

Narrative

In 2013, as part of my IRC-funded Third Tongue Project, I visited the University of Lexington, Kentucky, to participate in the Conventiculum Latinum, a week long immersion course in Spoken Latin. This began a long-term collaboration with Profs Terence Tunberg and Milena Minkova. I returned to Kentucky six teams as a contributing teacher for the Conventiculum. 
In the meantime, I established a Spoken Latin Circle in University College Cork. The latter led to the establishment of the Schola Latina in Cork, offering two-day workshops and a week-long immersion summer school, similar in design to the Conventiculum in Kentucky. This attracted media attention and international interest. It also fostered the creation of the MA in Renaissance Latin Culture - the first MA course in the world to contain Spoken Latin as part of the curriculum. As part of local developments in Cork, I introduced active Latin onto the curriculum in the Classics Department in 2018 through prose composition (LT6005) and Spoken Latin (LT6011 and HI6079). A critical part of this process was helping to train Dr Catherine Ware (Department of Classics) to speak Latin, resulting in her introduction of a new module (LT2040) in which Spoken Latin is both a means of instruction and a form of assessment. 
Internationally, as a consequence of training visiting English scholars at the Schola Latina in Cork, I was invited to the University of Durham to help establish a Spoken Latin circle and prepare the introduction of Latin onto the curriculum. I was also asked to deliver a talk in Latin at the University of Cambridge to help foster the developing Spoken Latin group there. Finally, I was invited to contribute to a panel on Living Latin at the Classical Association of the United Kingdom Annual Meeting in Edinburgh in April 2016, and, I gave a lecture and taught classes at the Living Latin in New York even organised by The Paideia Institute in February 2019. 
In recognition of my impact in developing Spoken Latin as a pedagogical tool, research area, and creative output, I was granted the honour of election as a Sodalis of the international Academia Latinitati Fovendae based in Rome.

Impact status	Open
Category of impact	Academic Impact