Matthieu van der Meer is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University. Matthieu is from the Netherlands, but attended the University of Notre Dame and received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Philosophy and a M.A. in Theology. Matthieu has a wide array of publications, book reviews, conference papers and a book in the works called Rule and Reform in the Age of Charlemagne.