R. Van Rooy

Raf Van Rooy studied Classics, Linguistics, and History at KU Leuven, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, UCLouvain, and Ghent University. In 2017, he received his PhD in Linguistics at KU Leuven, where he currently is Assistant Professor of Latin Literature. He previously worked as PhD and postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven (2013–22) and as an MSCA-IF postdoc at the University of Oslo (2021–22). He has published monographs, edited volumes, and articles on the history of linguistics and the reception of the Ancient Greek language and literature in the Neo-Latin world of early modern Europe. Recent publications include the monographs Greece's Labyrinth of Language (Language Science Press, 2020), Language or Dialect? (Oxford University Press, 2020), and New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World (Brill, 2023), as well as The crosslinguistic application of grammatical categories in the history of linguistics, a special issue of Language & History (Taylor & Francis, 2023).