Jordi Alonso
Instructor
Ph.D., University of Missouri
225-578-3165
jalonso@lsu.edu
313 Allen Hall
Personal Website: https://www.jordialonsopoet.com/
Biography
Jordi Alonso holds a PhD in English (2021) from the University of Missouri, an MA in Classical Studies from Columbia University (2023), an MFA in poetry from Stony Brook University (2016), and an AB in Creative Writing from Kenyon College (2014). Among Dr. Alonso’s interests are classical reception in the poetry of the long nineteenth century, Greek and Latin composition in the long nineteenth century, women’s education in the Victorian Era, the history of the book in late antiquity, and cult worship of nymphs in the ancient Mediterranean world, and the reception of Orphic material in the Renaissance and beyond.
Dr. Alonso’s current projects focus on Latin composition in the 18th and 19th centuries. He has a series of three edited volumes under contract with Contubernales Press to reissue the 1842 Latin translations of Sophocles’ Theban Cycle by Louis Benloew. Dr. Alonso is also working on the first-ever translation into English of the works of the 18th century Latin Jesuit poet Ubertino Carrara, on which he will be presenting at the 2024 meeting of the Society of Classical Studies. Dr. Alonso is currently revising his dissertation on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s classically-influenced poems into a book manuscript tentatively titled An Island of Nymphs: the Fear and Fantasy of Educated Women in Victorian England.