As a keen reader of Vitruvius he has delivered a substantial contribution in weeding out old prejudices against Vitruvius and building up a worthy position for him as a qualified literary writer well versed in the literary traditions.
John Oksanish is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Languages at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem North Carolina. Professor Oksanish received his PhD in Classical Philology from Yale University in 2011 and has published scholarship on Vitruvius's work De architectura (On architecture) and Latin pastoral poetry.