James M. May is Professor of Classics and Provost and Dean of the College at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, where he has taught since 1977, after finishing his doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published extensively in the fields of ancient rhetoric, pedagogy, and in particular, Ciceronian oratory. He is co-author (with Anne Groton) of Thirty-Eight Latin Stories (1986), the author of Trials of Character: The Eloquence of Ciceronian Ethos (1988), co-author (with Jakob Wisse) of Cicero: On the Ideal Orator (2001), and editor of Brills Companion to Cicero: Rhetoric and Oratory (2002). He has been the recipient of four NEH awards, the American Philological Associations Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics, and The Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award. He has served as Vice-President for Education for the American Philological Association, Director of its Campus Advisory Service, and currently as its Vice-President for Professional Matters. He has been the President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, and currently serves as the Associations official orator.