Alexander Frigerio

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Alexander Frigerio (Xander) is a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Notre Dame. He is studying Early Modern English epic and drama in the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, and Milton, with a focus on the imitation and reception of classical literature (especially Homer, Virgil, and Ovid). He has presented work on Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage, funeral performances in Shakespeare’s plays, and Keats’s reception of “The Phoenix and the Turtle,” and has taught Latin I at Notre Dame.