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I was born on January 20, 1946, in Hastings, New Zealand, to Robert
Ritchie Alexander
(high school teacher and professor of English, 1913 who passed away
February 10, 1998 and who is most sadly missed by all of his family, and
to Evelyn Constance Alexander (b. Pugh, 1920-). In December of 1963 the
family emigrated to
the U.S.A. I received a B.A. in German from Macalester College in Saint
Paul, Minnesota, in 1966; an M.A. in German from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 and a Ph.D. in German Literature from the same
institution in 1974 after writing a thesis on the execution scene in
Baroque drama. After a year in Berlin as a fellow of the Alexander von
Humboldt-Foundation, I started work as an Assistant Professor of German at
Arizona State University in 1976. Since my promotion to Full Professor in
1986 I have founded a summer program in Regensburg, Germany, and carried
out research on Baroque drama and theatre, in particular on the literary
interrelationships between France and Germany after 1648. I have taught
some 23 courses, including historical surveys from 1500 until 1990, genre
courses such as the novella, drama, comedy, picaresque novel and Grimms'
Fairy Tales. I married Terri Ann Coahran on February 5, 2000 and have no
children.
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