Teddy Delwiche

Theodore (Teddy) R. Delwiche is a PhD candidate in history whose research interests lie at the intersection of early modern European intellectual history, colonial America, and classical reception studies. He is particularly interested in the historical practices and purposes of classical education, the history of the book, history of the humanities, and the history of knowledge more broadly.

Peer-reviewed publications of his have appeared in The New England Quarterly, History of Universities, Lias: The Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources, Ambix: The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry , Modern Intellectual History, Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, and Erudition & The Republic of Letters.

He has also written reviews for The Classical Outlook, Paedagogica Historica, History of Universities, and the Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

Forthcoming publications include an original critical edition and translation (c. 75 pages) of a colonial American student’s Latin declamations for The Harvard Library Bulletin, an article on early modern shorthand for The Huntington Library Quarterly, and an article on congressional stenographers in the early American Republic for a special volume of Studies in Manuscript Culture, in addition to a (popular) article for the (Dutch) magazine Wonderkamer: Magazine voor Wetenschapsgeschiedenis. Finally, he is in the process of revising a few other scholarly pieces in the proverbial “pipeline.” For copies of his work, along with an updated version of his cv, see here.

For the coming (2022-2023) academic year, Teddy is researching and writing his dissertation, provisionally titled “The Contested Classics: Education in Early North America, 1630-1830.” In 2023, he will be a visiting fellow at the University of Amsterdam’s Vossius Center for the History of the Humanities and Sciences.

Teddy received his research master’s degree (English equivalent: MPhil) in early modern history at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) in 2020 and his bachelor’s degree in classics at Harvard College in 2018. He also completed summer coursework, and the year-long fellowship program at the Accademia Vivarium Novum in Frascati, Italy (2017). His research to date has been generously supported by over 25 different grants, fellowships, and awards, including the Jan Brouwer Thesis Prize from the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences for the best history masters thesis written in the Netherlands in 2020.