James M May

Jim May has taught at St. Olaf since 1977. He was named the Kenneth O. Bjork Distinguished Professor in 2014. He is the author of many articles and chapters on Cicero, classical rhetoric, and Latin pedagogy, as well as a book entitled T<i>rials of Character: The Eloquence of Ciceronian Ethos, an annotated translation (co-authored with Jakob Wisse) of Cicero's On the Ideal Orator, two textbooks, 38 Latin Stories and 46 Stories in Classical Greek (both co-authored with Anne Groton; the Greek reader won the Ladislaus J. Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award for 2016), and A Cicero Reader: Selections from Five Essays and Four Speeches with Five Letters. He edited Brill's Companion to Cicero: Oratory and Rhetoric.

His latest book, How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion, was published by Princeton University Press in 2016.