Rob Chappell
Assistant to the Honors Dean, ACES Academic Programs
Historians claim that very little – if anything – can be known for certain about Homer as a historical figure, but for the past 2,500 years or so, Homer has taken on a literary life of his own, and the poet and his poems have been celebrated, commented upon, and adapted countless times. In this presentation, we will see what Homer has meant to his admirers and interpreters across the centuries – and how he has been an inspiration to the presenter himself, in more ways than one.
Rob Chappell enrolled at the University of Illinois as a freshman in the fall of 1986. He majored in Latin and obtained his B.A. degree in Classical Philology in May 1991 with Bronze Tablet Honors. He also completed an M.A. degree in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the U of I in May 1996. Rob began his administrative professional career in May 1997 at the UI Graduate College, where he ran its Information Office for three years. He has served as the Assistant to the Honors Dean in ACES Academic Programs since April 2000. His master’s thesis (on vampirology in a 19th-century Swiss-German novella) was published as a book in 2012, and he continues to lecture and write in his spare time Altgeld Hall Tour – History and Grandeur
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