
Kirk Summers
Professor of Classics | Director, Classics Program; Undergraduate Major Advisor
- 239 BB Comer Hall
- (205) 348-2503
- ksummers@ua.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Office Hours
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00-noon and by appointment.
Education
MA, Biblical Studies, Reformed Theological Seminary
MA, Latin, University of Nebraska
PhD, Classical Philology, University of Illinois
Curriculum Vitae
Affiliations
Society for Reformation Research
Research Interests
Dr. Summers’s research interests include Reformation (especially the Reformed/Calvinist movement), Neo-Latin; Roman religion, Lucretius, and Cicero. Currently General Editor for the Peter Martyr Vermigli Loci communes translation project.
Spring 2019 classes:
- LA 202: Ovid’s Amores 1
- CL 350: Roman Religion
Selected Publications
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
1. Morality after Calvin: Theodore Beza’s Christian Censor and Reformed Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2016); for more info, go here. For a review in Themelios, go here.
2. “Reformation Humanism: Reading the Classics in the New Theology,” Reformation and Renaissance Review, 2018. To view the article and download the PDF, go here.
3. “Philippians 1:21-22: Revisiting John Calvin’s Innovative Interpretation,” in Calvin Theological Journal 53.1 (2018): 129–153. To view the article, go here.
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
1. “Consoling the Huguenot Refugees in Late 16th Century Geneva,” in Archive for Reformation History/Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte
2. “Theodore Beza’s ‘Bare-Breasted Religion:’ Liturgical Mystery and the English Vestments Controversy,” in Proceedings of the International Congress on Calvin Research (Philadelphia, 2018)