Alex Dressler

· Department Chair

University of Wisconsin-Madison · Arts & Humanities

Active 1960–2024

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Citations169

Papers4215 last 5y

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Professor Alex Dressler is a faculty member in the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The department, established in 1850, is dedicated to the study of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, with a focus on linguistic, historical, and philological foundations. Faculty and students conduct research in diverse areas such as Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Translation Studies, and Classical Reception, reflecting a vibrant and supportive academic community. Professor Dressler's work is rooted in the humanities, emphasizing interdisciplinary study of languages, history, and culture to connect the ancient world to contemporary questions. The department is committed to training new generations of teachers and scholars through mentorship, scholarship, and providing opportunities for research, study abroad, and community engagement. The faculty's dedication includes fostering critical thinking, cultural insight, and skills relevant to diverse career paths, contributing to the department's mission of advancing classical and Near Eastern studies.

Research topics

Computer Science
Philosophy
Medicine
Business
Mathematics
Family medicine

Selected publications

Posthumanism in Seneca’s Happy Life : ‘Animalism’, Personification and Private Property in Roman Stoicism ( Epistulae Morales 113 and De Vita Beata 5–8)
2019-10-24 · 11 citations
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Safeguarding children from UN peacekeeper sexual exploitation and abuse in Liberia
2018-01-01 · 2 citations
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Seeing (not) seeing: the phenomenology of deviant standpoint as a function of gender and class in Paulinus of Nola, Poems 18
Eugesta · 2018-01-01 · 1 citations
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Identifying an allusion to classical Greco-Roman poetry in a monologue (or prosopopoeia) of a cowherd by the fourth century Latin poet, Paulinus of Nola (c. 18.276-80), this article explains the emergence of the category of labor as a response to a process of Christian radicalization from the representation of erotic paroxysm in Sappho (fr. 31: “I see nothing in my eyes”), through the classical Latin poets Catullus (c. 51) and Horace (c. 1.13, 22). In view of Paulinus’ renunciation of wealth and…
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The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1
2017-01-01 · 1 citations
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2023-01-30
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Frequent coauthors

Sergio Hickey
Memorial Hospital
2 shared
Patrick Polsunas
The Spine Institute
2 shared
Cathy Zhang
Cypress Pointe Pain Management
2 shared
Danielle Zheng
2 shared
Andrew M Clary
2 shared
Trent Emerick
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
2 shared
Elaine Fantham
1 shared
Michael E Farrell
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
1 shared

Labs

Classical and Ancient Near Eastern StudiesPI

Awards & honors

Julia Horn Awarded Loeb Classical Library Fellowship
Julia Horn Awarded First Book Workshop
Katie Dennis Awarded 2026 Rome Prize Fellowship
Tara Mulder Awarded 2026 ACLS Fellowship
Graduate Student Julia Perroni Wins CAC Women’s Network Pre-…

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