PhD in Classical Studies
3250 Angell (English dept.) Great Books office.
About
Alex earned a B.A. in History and Philosophy with minors in Latin and Greek from Utah State University. Now he studies popular humor in Greco-Egyptian imaginative writing with interest in the way humor passes from culture to culture, especially in folktale, obscenity and paradoxography.
He has given conference papers on comic pharaohs in Herodotus, playful allegory in Proclus, and the parody of the Phaedrus in the Golden Ass. He has taught and learned with the women of the Inside-Out prison education program. At UM, he has taught Greek Mythology, Greek Civilization, Great Books, and summer course of his own design called Parageography, the study of imaginary worlds.
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.
