The Lyceum Institute is happy to welcome a second new Faculty Fellow for 2025, Dr. Jacob J. Andrews.
Salvē! I hold a PhD in medieval philosophy from Loyola University Chicago and graduate degrees from Marquette University and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. I teach Latin and Logic to students aged ten to eighteen at Covenant Classical School, and am an adjunct professor of philosophy at Wheaton College. I also serve as a houseparent at Jubilee Village, a transitional housing program for homeless single mothers, where I live with my wife, son, and daughter. And, occasionally, I sleep.
I started learning Latin at a classical school when I was six years old, and fell in love with it at eleven after I found a guide to scansion in the back of my dictionary . I taught myself to recite Latin verse quantitatively, and quickly realized that this rhythm was part of the language itself, not an oddity of its poetry. I marveled at the sound of this ancient language brought to life by careful study, and a quarter of a century later that wonder has never lessened. I am passionate about teaching students to engage with Latin as a living language, reading it fluently and developing an intuitive grasp of its subtleties.
Dr. Andrews will be assisting with a few of our programs but primarily begin with teaching Scholastic Latin in the Fall of 2025.