Alex Tarbet

Alex studies international folk humor about tyrants and kings as it relates to Greek and Latin imaginative prose. His dissertation, Worlds Upside Down: Folk Humor in the Greco-Egyptian Imagination, explores the (mis)reception of Egyptian storytelling about the pharaohs from Herodotus through Aesop and Alexander traditions. Alex also has great interest in popular international satires of Greek philosophers in Lucian and Apuleius.

Alex grew up in a small town in rural Idaho ruled by an iron-hoofed oligarchy of prominent cows. The son of a plumber, he believes that all things eternally roll downhill.