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Jeff A. Rydberg-Cox
Associate Professor
English Department Co-Chair
Graduate Faculty in English
Doctoral Faculty in Religious Studies
107 Cockefair Hall
816.235.2560
rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu
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Jeff Rydberg-Cox is Professor and Chair of the Department of English, Director of the Classical and Ancient Studies Program, and a member of the faculty of the Religious Studies Program and the Computer Science Department. He received his B.A. from Colorado College in Classics, History, and Politics. He holds an MA and Ph.D. from the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining UMKC, he served as Assistant Editor for Language and Lexicography at The Perseus Project based at Tufts University. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the European Commission, and the National Library of Medicine. He is the author of two books, more than thirty articles. He is currently working on a book about films that represent Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and he is a member of a team based at Cambridge University that is writing a new intermediate level Greek lexicon.
Degrees:
- Ph.D. 1998, the University of Chicago, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World
- M.A., 1993, The University of Chicago, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World
- B.A., 1992, Colorado College, Classics-History-Politics
Areas of Specialization:
- Computational linguistics and ancient languages
- Digital libraries
- Computational lexicography
- Greek rhetoric
- Representations of the ancient world in film
Courses:
Professor Rydberg-Cox regularly teaches courses on the ancient world in film, Classical myth, and Greek language.
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