Dr. Alexander Dale

Biography

Alexander Dale obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2009, where he focused on the lyric fragments of the Hellenistic poet Callimachus. His research involved a fresh examination of papyri, producing new text alongside prolegomena and commentary under the supervision of Adrian Hollis and Gregory Hutchinson. Following this, he held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, where he examined the interaction of Anatolian and Greek languages, literature, and culture from the Late Bronze Age to the mid-first millennium BCE. Dale continued his research tenure with a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) at Concordia University. He joined Concordia in Fall 2016 and is involved in teaching several courses related to Greek and Indo-European studies. His research interests primarily lie in Greek poetry from various periods, including early epic and specifically lyric, elegiac, and iambic poetry, as well as Hellenistic poetry, and Greek literary papyrology. Additionally, he explores historical Indo-European linguistics and comparative grammar between Greek and Latin, focusing on the Anatolian branch of Indo-European languages. Currently, his research emphasizes the intersection of Greek and Anatolian culture during the archaic to Hellenistic periods.

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