Dr. Bruce Louden
Professor in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at UTEP
Dr. Bruce Louden received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include Homeric Epic, Greek Myth, Near Eastern Myth, the Bible, Classical Indian Literature, Shakespeare, and Milton. He has published three books on Homeric epic, The Odyssey: Structure, Narration and Meaning (1999), The Iliad: Structure, Myth and Meaning (2006), both on the Johns Hopkins University Press, and Homer’s Odyssey and the Near East (2011) on Cambridge University Press, and authored 18 entrees in The Homer Encyclopedia (2011). He has published articles on the Bible, the Rig Veda, Greek lyric, Greek tragedy, Roman Comedy, the Aeneid, Beowulf, Shakespeare, Paradise Lost, and the film, It’s a Wonderful Life, in journals including Transactions of the American Philological Association, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Classical Antiquity, Comparative Drama, and The Journal of Indo-European Studies. He received research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Hellenic Studies. He has given invited papers on the Bible and Greek Myth at a conference in Tel Aviv, as a keynote speaker at a conference in Sweden on “Homer and the Bible,” and in December 2015, at the Melpomene Chair Greek Studies Conference at Berkeley. In May, 2016 he was featured in a piece in the New York Times. He has completed his fourth and fifth books, “Shakespeare and Greek Literature,” and “Greek Myth and the Bible.” Dr. Louden teaches courses on Latin and Greek languages and literatures, the Bible, ancient philosophy, Greek mythology, epic poetry and renaissance drama.