Alexander Sens is Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Professor of Hellenic Studies. He teaches courses on Ancient Greek and on Greek literature. He studies the poetry of the late Classical and Hellenistic periods and is particularly interested in the ways in which the authors of these ages engage with antecedent literature to create meaning in profoundly new literary and cultural contexts. In addition to more than 50 articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries and numerous book reviews, he is the author or co-author of six books: Theocritus: Dioscuri (Idyll 22). Introduction, Text, and Commentary ([Hypomnemata vol. 114] Göttingen, 1997; Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century BCE (with S.D. Olson) ([American Philological Association Monographs 44] Atlanta, 1999); Archestratos of Gela: Text, Translation, and Commentary (with S.D. Olson) (Oxford, 2000); Asclepiades of Samos: Epigrams and Fragments (Oxford University Press, 2011); The Alexandra of Lycophron: A Literary Study (with C. McNelis) (Oxford, 2016); and Hellenistic Epigrams: A Selection ([Cambridge Greek and Latin Commentaries] Cambridge, 2020). He is the co-editor, with P. Knox and H. Pelliccia, of They Keep It All Hid: Augustan Poetry, Its Antecedents and Reception (Berlin, 2019). He is currently at work on a commissioned volume for the Loeb Classical Library that will include the Alexandra of Lycophron, the Phaenomena of Aratus, and the works of Nicander. In 2017, he received the Georgetown University President’s Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Secondary
- Dean, Graduate School