Dr. phil. Marie-Luise Reinhard-Mika
About my Academic Career...
Marie-Luise Reinhard-Mika, educated at Mainz and Tours Universities (Latin, French) and former graduate assistant under Prof. Christine Walde (Mainz), has developed extensive expertise in written and spoken Latin. In 2017, she won the prestigious Pretium Petronianum for prose composition. She has also tutored style exercises related to Latin writing, where she shared her ideas on incorporating spoken Latin into Latin didactics through talks and articles.
She was additionally awarded the First Prize from the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies in Mainz for her transdisciplinary Master's thesis, “In New Ways Back – On the Necessity of Spoken Latin.”
Her research interests also encompass the history of classical scholarship, culminating in her Ph.D. thesis on Johann Matthias Gesner (1691–1761) and his approaches to Latin instruction.
Marie-Luise Reinhard-Mika has received a scholarship from Rome Tor Vergata University, under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Stok and Prof. Christine Walde, and a scholarship from the Collegio Universitario della Federazione Nazionale dei Cavalieri del Lavoro in Rome, where she regularly taught courses related to her thesis.
She has taught Latin, French, and German using diverse methodologies at secondary schools, high schools, and universities, including Johns Hopkins University, Accademia Vivarium Novum (Frascati), Athena Nova (Milan, online), Polis-Institute (Jerusalem, online), and the Classical Learning Resource Center (online).
After returning to Fulda, she passed her Zweites Staatsexamen at the Studienseminar Fulda in May 2023 and was subsequently appointed to Neues Gymnasium Rüsselsheim, where she has been teaching Music, Latin, and French since September 2023. In 2025, she obtained her “kleine Facultas”, qualifying her to teach Music at the lower secondary level (Sekundarstufe I).
