Chico Zimmerman

Education & Professional History

University of North Carolina, MA; PhD

Chico Zimmerman is a generalist in the area of Classical Studies.  A philologist by training, he enjoys learning and teaching languages in a liberal arts context.  His research in the past has focused on Hellenistic poetry, but he is currently working on the Latin poets Lucan and Ovid.

Zimmerman is also interested in learning, cognition, metacognition and brain science.  Having served as the Coordinator of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, he is an avid consumer of the scholarship of teaching and learning and has an abiding interest in faculty development around issues of pedagogy and course design.  He is also conversant with assessment in higher education and learning technologies. Zimmerman has also served as the Mentor for Carleton’s first Houston Posse.

Zimmerman lives in a geodesic dome that he built with his wife when he was much younger and more adventurous.

Highlights & Recent Activity

Zimmerman is currently the co-Chair of CEDI as well as the IDE Strategic Plan Steering Group.

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

American Philological Association; Classical Association of the Midwest and South; Classical Association of Minnesota

Securus and cura in Lucan’s de bello civile

chariot imagery in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria