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Ted was born in Kansas City, Kansas, but when he was a young child his family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he grew up. He attended Northwest School of the Arts, a public magnet school, from 6th grade until he graduated high school. After graduation he attended North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he completed summa cum laude two B.A.s—in History and Political Science (International Relations)—along with three minors (Classical Studies, Classical Greek, and Music Composition and Theory).

After college, Ted moved straight on to grad school in Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill. In 2008, he earned an M.A. in ancient Greek, with a thesis titled “Sacrifice and Ritual Imagery in Menander, Plautus, and Terence” under the direction of Sharon L. James. He is currently finishing up a dissertation titled “Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire” with James J. O’Hara. Ted has published in Bryn Mawr Classical Review and the Undergraduate Research Journal of North Carolina State University, and has publications forthcoming in The Classical Journal (issue 107.1) and the Blackwell Companion to Terence (edd. Antonios Augoustakis and John E. Thorburn). He has presented 14 papers, and has organized two workshops and two panels, at venues such as the annual meetings of the American Philological Association and the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS). His research presentations have garnered four awards, including the Presidential Award from both CAMWS and CAMWS-Southern Section.

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Ted’s research interests range from Aristophanes to Apuleius, from Apollonius to Augustus. He is particularly interested in the intersections of gender, status, power, and ritual in Graeco-Roman society. Ted specializes in Republican and Augustan poetry, particularly comedy, satire, Lucretius, and elegy.

Ted is also a devoted teacher. His courses have included 1st through 4th-semester Latin (among the central authors taught: Sallust, Catullus, Caesar), intro Latin for graduate students, Women in Rome (as a teaching assistant to Sharon James), and a self-designed First-Year Seminar team-taught with two non-Classics graduate students, “Protest & Propaganda.”

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In line with his undergraduate minor in Music Composition and Theory, Ted composes Western art music (“classical music”) and computer music. His compositions have been performed by musicians from Tanglewood, Florida State University, North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Winthrop University, the Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra, Northwest School of the Arts, and Vivre Musicale, a new music chamber group based in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Between high school and college, Ted attended the prestigious Tanglewood Music Festival for a “young artist’s” program in composition. His largest work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, for female narrator and chamber orchestra, is one of only two compositions ever to set texts from a narrative of freedom (in Ted’s case, the work of the same name by Harriet Jacobs). Recordings of Ted's work, as well as information on commissions or requests, are available by e-mail.

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Ted lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his husband Jake Gellar-Goad and his cats, Lyta and Teucer
Lyta (right) and Teucer (asleep).