Tyler Flatt was born and raised in southern Ontario, Canada. A classicist by training, Flatt is passionate about making the history, culture, and languages of ancient Greece and Rome more familiar and accessible to contemporary audiences. He is dedicated to the ongoing interpretation and transmission of the best of the classical tradition.
At Boyce, Flatt chairs the Humanities and General Education programs, teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses focused on the Western tradition: Great Books (I & II), World Literature, Greek Civilization, Roman Civilization, Latin I-IV, advanced literature seminars (e.g. on Dante, Milton, Shakespeare, and others), and Friendship and the Christian Life. Flatt also directs Boyce’s honors program, the Augustine Honors Collegium (AHC), for which he has curated courses on Shakespeare and Western Culture, Totalitarianism, and the City in American Life, among other topics.
His professional interests include the classical literary tradition, especially epic (from Homer to the biblical epics of late antiquity), Renaissance humanism, active Latin, Shakespeare, and early modern England. His amateur pursuits include biblical intertextuality, American history, and fishing.
Flatt’s work has appeared in The Classical Journal, Classical World, The Classical Review, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, and Vigiliae Christianae, and he is the founding host of the Daily Dose of Latin, a video series devoted to short explanations of passages from the Vulgate, the Latin Bible of medieval Europe. He is also the faculty leader of Boyce’s Shakespearean society, The Happy Few.