This is the second post in the series about positions that department alumni hold. This alumna is one of our early graduates from the program (1994) who is now teaching at the University of Utah.
Alexis Christensen graduated from UE in the
spring of 1994 with a B.A. in classical archaeology and a minor in history. In
the fall of 1994 she started working on her M.A. in classical archaeology at
Florida State University, writing a thesis on Etruscan glass from Poggio
Civitate (Murlo). As she was finishing her degree, FSU started a new Ph.D.
program in Classical Archaeology which Alexis entered in 1997. While working
toward her Ph.D., she spent two semesters teaching for FSU Study Abroad
programs.in London and Greece, and picking up a second M.A. in Latin. As Alexis
was wrapping up her dissertation (on the spatial dynamic of mosaic floors in
Late Republican era houses at Pompeii) in 2006, she was offered a two year
position as visiting assistant professor in the Classics Department at the
University of Iowa. In 2008, she took a job with the University of Utah as
visiting assistant professor in the Languages and Literature department, which
houses Classics as well as modern foreign languages and comparative literature.
At both Iowa and Utah, Alexis has taught all levels of Latin and Greek,
mythology, ancient literature in translation, and different aspects of ancient
Greek and Roman civilization and reception studies. She typically teaches three
courses per semester, but sometimes picks up a fourth Honors class. In addition
to teaching, Alexis is the faculty advisor for the U of U's chapter of ΗΣΦ and
is the 2015-2016 president for the Utah Classical Association, which works especially
with secondary school Latin teachers. Since 2011, she has been field director
for the Sangro Valley Project's excavations in the southern Abruzzo, where
they’ve been excavating Roman villas and Samnite habitation sites.
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| This photo is from the ΗΣΦ marathon reading of the Aeneid in fall 2013. |
Follow Alexis on Twitter @ProfChristensen
and on her classics blog http://www.nescioquid.com
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