Alexander Sens is the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Markos & Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Professor of Hellenic Studies. He has been a faculty member at Georgetown University since 1991 and is the author or co-author of six books. He has published more than 50 articles, book chapters and encyclopedia entries and numerous book reviews. Alex is also 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.

Alex received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University and B.A. from Brown University. He teaches courses on Ancient Greek and Greek literature and studies the poetry of the late Classical and Hellenistic periods. He 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 2017, Alex received the Georgetown University President’s Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award.