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Ralph J. Hexter is the fifth president of Hampshire College. He joined the college August 1, 2005, and was inaugurated on October 15.
President Hexter served previously as Executive Dean of Letters and Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. from Yale University, B.A. and M.A. from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and A.B. from Harvard College. Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty in 1995, he was professor of classics and comparative literature and director of the graduate program in comparative literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His first faculty appointment was at Yale University, where he taught for 10 years and was director of undergraduate studies in the humanities major, also serving for one year as acting associate dean of the graduate school.
Hexter is the author of three books on medieval and ancient literature: Equivocal Oaths and Ordeals in Medieval Literature (1975); Ovid and Medieval Schooling: Studies in Medieval School Commentaries on Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, Epistulae ex Ponto and Epistulae Heroidu m (1986); and A Guide to the Odyssey: A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald (1993). He is co-editor, with Daniel Selden, of Innovations of Antiquity (1992). His publications include articles on Vergil, Horace, Goethe, Verdi, and a variety of topics in Medieval Latin in such journals as Modern Language Notes, Helios, Classical Philology, Yale Journal of Criticism and Cambridge Opera Journal.
He has been a visiting lecturer at the Folger Institute in Washington, D.C., and a Fellow of the Villa I Tatti, Harvard Center for Studies in the Italian Renaissance in Florence.
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