Alexander Hwang

Biography

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.  

Selected Recent Publications

“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.

Selected Recent Publications

“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.

Publications 

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

Selected Recent Publications

“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.

Education 

Ph.D. Fordham Unversity
Adv. Doc. Cert. Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University
M.Phil. Fordham University
M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary
B.A.    University of Illinois

Selected Recent Publications

“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.

Awards and Distinctions 

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 

Selected Recent Publications

“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.