Steve Reece
Steve Reece, Professor of Classics
(has taught at St. Olaf since 1994)
B.A., M.A. (Classics), University of Hawaii, 1982, 1984
Ph.D. (Classics), University of California-Los Angeles, 1990
Steve Reece has published a variety of articles on Homer, oral traditions, historical linguistics, and pedagogy; he is the author of a book entitled The Stranger's Welcome: Oral Theory and the Aesthetics of the Homeric Hospitality Scene. He is completing a monograph on early Greek etymology (for which he received a McIntosh Fellowship) and beginning a new project on classical references in the New Testament (for which he received a FaCE grant from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest).
Reece has done research at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Lord Fellowship, 1988), the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri-Columbia (NEH Fellowship, 1992), the American Academy in Rome (Fulbright Fellowship, 1994), and the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. (2000). Before coming to St. Olaf, he taught for a year at Texas A & M and two years at Vanderbilt (Mellon Fellowship). He has served as President of the Classical Association of Minnesota.
In his spare time Reece is an avid fisherman, a fanatical basketball player, and an awesome biker. Besides being able to speak Japanese with a Tennessee accent, his greatest claim to fame is having served as a consultant for the Hollywood production of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures. He is married to Rhonda, Minister of Music at Bethel Lutheran Church in Northfield; they have a son Taylor and a daughter Hannah.
Courses in 2008-2009: Semester I = Greek 111B (Beginning Greek I), Greek 231 (Intermediate Greek), Latin 111A (Beginning Latin I); Semester II = Greek 253 (New Testament Greek), Greek 375 (Homer and Greek Epic), Latin 112A (Beginning Latin II)
