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After teaching twenty years as a college professor and a brief, semi-sucessful stand-up career, Alex founded Two Cities Press to combine his love of scholarship, books, and collaboration. His vision for TCP is a thriving community of scholars engaged in the work of creating a more intelligent, equitable, and compassionate world.
Alex enjoys spending time with family and friends and attending international conferences at interesting places.
“Recovering Germans: Teutonic Origins and Beowulf,” Kritikon Litterarum · American and English Studies 43.1-2 (2016): 125-142.
“Gothic ‘Immigrants’ in the Roman Empire,” in ‘Strangers in this World’: Multi-Religious Reflections on Immigration, ed. Hussam Timani, Allen G. Jorgenson and Alexander Y. Hwang (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015): 129-42.
“Arthur in Early Wales/Culhwch and Olwen,” in Medieval Arthurian Epic and Romance: Eight New Translations, ed. William W. Kibler and R. Barton Palmer (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014): 70-98.
“A Mother from Hell: Love and Vengeance in Beowulf,” in Vox Germanica: Essays in Germanic Languages and Literature in Honor of James E. Cathey (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2012), ed. Stephen J. Harris, Michael Moynihan and Sherrill Harbison: 187-98.
“Theories of History in Traditional Plots,” in Myth in Early Northwest Europe, ed. Stephen O. Glosecki (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS/Brepols, 2007): 31-45.
“An Ethnic Dating of Beowulf” (2006), which shared the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists' prize for best article in two years.
“Recovering Germans: Teutonic Origins and Beowulf,” Kritikon Litterarum · American and English Studies 43.1-2 (2016): 125-142.
“Gothic ‘Immigrants’ in the Roman Empire,” in ‘Strangers in this World’: Multi-Religious Reflections on Immigration, ed. Hussam Timani, Allen G. Jorgenson and Alexander Y. Hwang (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015): 129-42.
“Arthur in Early Wales/Culhwch and Olwen,” in Medieval Arthurian Epic and Romance: Eight New Translations, ed. William W. Kibler and R. Barton Palmer (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014): 70-98.
“A Mother from Hell: Love and Vengeance in Beowulf,” in Vox Germanica: Essays in Germanic Languages and Literature in Honor of James E. Cathey (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2012), ed. Stephen J. Harris, Michael Moynihan and Sherrill Harbison: 187-98.
“Theories of History in Traditional Plots,” in Myth in Early Northwest Europe, ed. Stephen O. Glosecki (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS/Brepols, 2007): 31-45.
“An Ethnic Dating of Beowulf” (2006), which shared the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists' prize for best article in two years.
Oxford University Press
Cambridge University Press
The Catholic University of America Press
Schwabe AG
Rowman and Littlefield
Fortress Press
Bloomsbury
Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia
Studia Patristica
Missiology: An International Review
Scottish Journal of Theology
“Recovering Germans: Teutonic Origins and Beowulf,” Kritikon Litterarum · American and English Studies 43.1-2 (2016): 125-142.
“Gothic ‘Immigrants’ in the Roman Empire,” in ‘Strangers in this World’: Multi-Religious Reflections on Immigration, ed. Hussam Timani, Allen G. Jorgenson and Alexander Y. Hwang (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015): 129-42.
“Arthur in Early Wales/Culhwch and Olwen,” in Medieval Arthurian Epic and Romance: Eight New Translations, ed. William W. Kibler and R. Barton Palmer (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014): 70-98.
“A Mother from Hell: Love and Vengeance in Beowulf,” in Vox Germanica: Essays in Germanic Languages and Literature in Honor of James E. Cathey (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2012), ed. Stephen J. Harris, Michael Moynihan and Sherrill Harbison: 187-98.
“Theories of History in Traditional Plots,” in Myth in Early Northwest Europe, ed. Stephen O. Glosecki (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS/Brepols, 2007): 31-45.
“An Ethnic Dating of Beowulf” (2006), which shared the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists' prize for best article in two years.
B.A. University of Illinois
M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary
M.Phil. Fordham University
Ph.D. Fordham Unversity
Adv. Doc. Cert. Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University
“Recovering Germans: Teutonic Origins and Beowulf,” Kritikon Litterarum · American and English Studies 43.1-2 (2016): 125-142.
“Gothic ‘Immigrants’ in the Roman Empire,” in ‘Strangers in this World’: Multi-Religious Reflections on Immigration, ed. Hussam Timani, Allen G. Jorgenson and Alexander Y. Hwang (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015): 129-42.
“Arthur in Early Wales/Culhwch and Olwen,” in Medieval Arthurian Epic and Romance: Eight New Translations, ed. William W. Kibler and R. Barton Palmer (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014): 70-98.
“A Mother from Hell: Love and Vengeance in Beowulf,” in Vox Germanica: Essays in Germanic Languages and Literature in Honor of James E. Cathey (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2012), ed. Stephen J. Harris, Michael Moynihan and Sherrill Harbison: 187-98.
“Theories of History in Traditional Plots,” in Myth in Early Northwest Europe, ed. Stephen O. Glosecki (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS/Brepols, 2007): 31-45.
“An Ethnic Dating of Beowulf” (2006), which shared the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists' prize for best article in two years.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Seminar, Fellow, “The Fall(s) of Rome,” Rome, Italy
Summer Seminar, Fellow, “Augustine and Perpetua,” Tunis, Algeria [declined]
American Academy of Religion/Luce Foundation Summer Seminars
Fellow, “Comparative Theology/Theologies of Religious Pluralism,” Atlanta/Chicago
Fordham University
High Pass, Doctoral Exams
Pesidential Scholarship
Princeton Theological Seminary
Fellowship in Church History
Samuel Robinson Prize
“Recovering Germans: Teutonic Origins and Beowulf,” Kritikon Litterarum · American and English Studies 43.1-2 (2016): 125-142.
“Gothic ‘Immigrants’ in the Roman Empire,” in ‘Strangers in this World’: Multi-Religious Reflections on Immigration, ed. Hussam Timani, Allen G. Jorgenson and Alexander Y. Hwang (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015): 129-42.
“Arthur in Early Wales/Culhwch and Olwen,” in Medieval Arthurian Epic and Romance: Eight New Translations, ed. William W. Kibler and R. Barton Palmer (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014): 70-98.
“A Mother from Hell: Love and Vengeance in Beowulf,” in Vox Germanica: Essays in Germanic Languages and Literature in Honor of James E. Cathey (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2012), ed. Stephen J. Harris, Michael Moynihan and Sherrill Harbison: 187-98.
“Theories of History in Traditional Plots,” in Myth in Early Northwest Europe, ed. Stephen O. Glosecki (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS/Brepols, 2007): 31-45.
“An Ethnic Dating of Beowulf” (2006), which shared the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists' prize for best article in two years.
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