Ralph Hexter
Ralph J. Hexter | |
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Acting Chancellor University of California, Davis | |
In office April 27, 2016 – February 23, 2017 | |
Preceded by | Linda Katehi |
Succeeded by | Gary S. May |
5th President of Hampshire College | |
In office 2005–2010 | |
Preceded by | Gregory S. Prince, Jr. |
Succeeded by | Jonathan Lash Marlene Gerber Fried (interim) |
Personal details | |
Born | August 25, 1952 |
Nationality | American |
Spouse |
Manfred Kollmeier (after 2007) |
Alma mater | Harvard University (A.B., 1974) Corpus Christi College, Oxford (M.A/B.A., 1977/1982) Yale University (M.Phil./Ph.D., 1979/1982) |
Ralph Jay Hexter (born 1952) is a distinguished professor of classics and comparative literature[1] at the University of California, Davis. Previously, he served as the fifth president of Hampshire College.[2][3][4]
Education
Hexter received an A.B. in English literature from Harvard College in 1974. He then studied in England, where he earned a B.A. and M.A. in classics and modern languages at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1977 and 1982, respectively. He also earned an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University in 1979 and 1982, respectively. Hexter subsequently taught in the classics department at Yale from 1981 to 1991.[2][3]
Career
Hexter taught classics and comparative literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at Yale University.[2][3] He was also the Executive Dean of Letters and Science and Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.[2][3] Hexter assumed the Hampshire College presidency on August 1, 2005, a post he relinquished on December 31, 2010.[3]
Hexter 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.[3]
On August 2, 2010, Hexter announced his resignation as president of Hampshire.[5][6] 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.[7]
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.[8] His faculty title is Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature.
Personal life
Hexter is openly gay.[9][10] He was among the founding members of LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education. Hexter married his longtime partner, Manfred Kollmeier, in 2007.[11]
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.
- Appendix Ovidiana: Latin Texts Ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages, edited by Ralph Hexter, Larua Pfuntner, and Justin Haynes. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 62. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2020.
References
- ^ "UC Davis Leadership". UC Davis. 2 July 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
- ^ a b c d Hampshire College biography
- ^ a b c d e f Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts biography Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Berkeley webpage
- ^ http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1271961&srvc=rss [dead link]
- ^ "President Ralph Hexter announces his intent to transition from Hampshire College". www.hampshire.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-08-06.
- ^ Hampshire College, Marlene Gerber Fried to be Acting Hampshire College President 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
- ^ "News". 3 March 2021.
- ^ The Chronicle of Higher Education
- ^ Inside Higher Ed interview
- ^ A Gay President Says 'I Do'
External links
- Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter via University of California, Davis