Ralph Hexter
Ralph J. Hexter (born 1952) is the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of California, Davis. He is a classics scholar and the former president of Hampshire College.[1][2][3]
Biography
Ralph Hexter received an A.B. from Harvard College, a B.A. and an M.A. from Oxford University's Corpus Christi College, followed by an MPhil and a PhD from Yale University.[1][2]
He taught classics and comparative literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at Yale University.[1][2] He was also the Executive Dean of Letters and Science and Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2] Hexter assumed the Hampshire College presidency on August 1, 2005, a post he relinquished on December 31, 2010.[2]
He has been involved with the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts, Phi Beta Kappa, the American Philological Association, and the National Conference for Community and Justice.[2]
He is openly gay.[4][5] He was among the founding members of LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education.
On August 2, 2010, Hexter announced his resignation as president of Hampshire.[6][7] On August 20, Hampshire College announced that Marlene Gerber Fried would serve as acting president and that Hexter would be on sabbatical beginning on September 1.[8]
On November 22, 2010, it was announced that Ralph Hexter would be the next Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Davis, effective January 1, 2011.[9] His faculty title is Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature.
Bibliography
- Equivocal Oaths and Ordeals in Medieval Literature, by Ralph J. Hexter, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975.
- Ovid and Medieval Schooling: Studies in Medieval School Commentaries on Ovid's Ars Amatoria, Epistulae ex Ponto, and Epistulae Heroidum, by Ralph J. Hexter, Munich: Arbeo-Gesellschaft, 1986.
- Innovations of Antiquity, edited by Ralph Hexter and Daniel Selden, New York: Routledge, 1992.
- A Guide to the Odyssey: A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald, by Ralph J. Hexter, New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
- The Faith of Achates: Finding Aeneas' Other, by Ralph J. Hexter, Berkeley, CA: Doe Library, University of California, 1997.
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature, edited by Ralph J. Hexter and David Townsend. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
References
- ^ a b c d Hampshire College biography
- ^ a b c d e f Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts biography
- ^ Berkeley webpage
- ^ The Chronicle of Higher Education
- ^ Inside Higher Ed interview
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ Hampshire College, Marlene Gerber Fried to be Acting Hampshire College President 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
- ^ [3]
External links
- Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter via University of California, Davis
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