Spotlight On: Visiting Research Scholar Alexander Dale

Alexander Dale is one of nine visiting research scholars at ISAW for 2011-12. He earned his DPhil in 2009 from the University of Oxford in the field of Classics. His primary areas of research interest and expertise are Greek poetry, particularly of the Archaic and Hellenistic periods; Greek meter and literary papyrology; and historical linguistics, particularly of the Greek and Anatolian branches of Indo-European. In addition to working on his research project at ISAW, "The East Shore of Lesbos: Greek Poetry at the East Aegean-West Anatolian Interface,” which will focus on the nature and extent of the influence of the Anatolian languages and cultures of the second and first millennia BC on early archaic Greek language and literature in the east Aegean and Asia Minor, he will also be organizing a workshop on The Aegeo-Anatolian Interface: Evidence and Implications which will take place in April 2012.

Dr. Dale will be giving lecture on Tuesday, November 15 at 6pm on Dynamics of Acculturation and Integration: the Aegeo-Anatolian Interface in the Second and First Millennia BC. For more information on Dr. Dale and his upcoming lecture, visit http://isaw.nyu.edu/events/visiting-research-scholar-lecture-dynamics-of-acculteration-and-integration-the-aegeo-anatolian-interface-in-the-second-and-first-millenia-bc.