Position Title
Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Position Title
Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
807 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
SQ 24: Tuesdays and Thursdays noon -1:15 pm
Additionally by appointment (either in-person or Zoom); email me at hexter@ucdavis.edu
Additionally by appointment (either in-person or Zoom); email me at hexter@ucdavis.edu
Bio
Education and Degree(s):
- Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Comparative Literature, Yale University
- M.A. and B.A. in Classics and Modern Languages, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University
- A.B. in English Literature, Harvard College
About
Research Interest(s):
- Ancient Epic
- Medieval Latin
- Commentary
- Classical Reception
- History of Sexuality
Course(s) Taught:
- Greek, Roman and Near Eastern Mythology
- Homer and the Ancient Epic
- Vergil, Eclogues and Georgics
- Senior Seminar: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Roman
- Myths and Legends
- Epidemic and Literature
- Opera and the Classical World.
Profile:
Dr. Hexter holds an appointment as distinguished professor of classics and comparative literature.
Selected Publications:
- Appendix Ovidiana: Latin Poems Ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages, ed. and translated with Laura Pfuntner and Justin Haynes in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2020;
- "The Kisses of Juventius and Policing the Boundaries of Masculinity: The Case of Catullus,” in Jennifer Ingleheart, ed., Ancient Rome & the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 273-87;
- “Epic Worlds,” in Brenda Deen Schildgen and Ralph Hexter, eds., Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 23-38.