{"id":24,"date":"2013-03-20T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/classics-faculty\/steve-reece\/"},"modified":"2015-07-27T22:11:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T03:11:38","slug":"steve-reece","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/steve-reece\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Reece"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Steve Reece, Professor of Classics
\nO.C. and Patricia Boldt Distinguished Teaching Professor <\/a>
\nin the Humanities (2015-2018)<\/a>
\n(has taught at St. Olaf since 1994)<\/p>\n

E-mail: reece@stolaf.edu<\/a>
\nOffice: Tomson Hall 347
\nOffice telephone: 507-786-3378<\/p>\n

B.A., M.A. (Classics), University of Hawaii, 1982,\u00a01984
\nPh.D. (Classics), University of California-Los Angeles, 1990<\/p>\n

\"young.Reece.fish\"Steve Reece grew up in the town of Niigata on the west coast of Northern Japan. He taught at UCLA, Texas A&M University, and Vanderbilt University (Mellon Fellow) before coming to St. Olaf. He has published a wide variety of articles and book chapters on Homeric studies, New Testament studies, comparative oral traditions, historical linguistics, and pedagogy. \u00a0He is the author of a book about\u00a0the rituals of ancient Greek hospitality (The Stranger’s Welcome: Oral Theory and<\/em> the Aesthetics of the Homeric Hospitality Scene<\/em>, published by University of Michigan Press) and a\u00a0book on early Greek etymology (Homer’s Winged Words: Junctural Metanalysis in Homer in the Light of Oral-Formulaic Theory<\/em>, published by\u00a0E.J. Brill Press), for which he received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. \u00a0He has just finished\u00a0a monograph on ancient letter-writing techniques\u00a0and\u00a0is also engaged in a long-term project on allusions to classical literature in Luke-Acts and the letters of Paul, for which he received a FaCE grant through the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.<\/p>\n

\"SteveMegiddoCloseup2\"Reece has done research at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Lord Fellowship), the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri (NEH Fellowship), the American Academy in Rome (Fulbright Fellowship), and the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 He has lectured broadly, is called on frequently to act as referee for professional journals and university presses, and has been a consultant for IBM, E.J. Brill Press, and the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition. He has chaired the St. Olaf Department of Classics for two years and served a term as President of the Classical Association of Minnesota.\u00a0 In the summer of 2010 he participated in the archaeological excavations at Tel Megiddo in northern Israel (see photo at right for proof).<\/p>\n

\"ReecesIn his spare time Reece is a hopeful fisherman, a “wannabee” basketball player, and an indolent bike-rider. Besides being able to speak Japanese with a Tennessee accent, his greatest claims to fame are having climbed a dozen active volcanoes and having served as a consultant for the Hollywood production of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures<\/em>.\u00a0He is married to Rhonda Reece, Minister of Music at Bethel Lutheran Church in Northfield; the photo (left) shows them\u00a0exploring petroglyphs in Colorado. \u00a0They\u00a0have a son Taylor, married to Kayli, and a daughter Hannah<\/p>\n

Courses in 2015-2016:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Semester I = Greek 111 A & B (Beginning Greek I), Greek 375 (Homer and\u00a0Greek Epic); Interim = Classics 124 (The Many Faces of Homer); Semester II = Greek 112\u00a0(Beginning Greek\u00a0II)<\/p>\n

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Steve Reece, Professor of Classics O.C. and Patricia Boldt Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities (2015-2018) (has taught at St. Olaf since 1994) E-mail: reece@stolaf.edu Office: Tomson Hall 347 Office […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}