Alexander Brock

Research Areas:

  • Global Medieval Storytelling
  • The Italian Novella
  • Early Modern Theater
  • Ancient and Medieval Psychology

 Education:

  • Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Princeton University
  • M.A., Littérature française de la Renaissance aux Lumières, École normale supérieure, Paris IV La Sorbonne, and Paris III La Sorbonne nouvelle
  • Diplôme of the École normale supérieure, Littératures et langage
  • B.A., Comparative Literature, Princeton University, summa cum laude 

Publications: 

“Angels and Rogues: Boccaccio’s Decameron IX.3 and Its Biblical and South Asian Intertexts,” postmedieval (2026): https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-025-00400-2 

“But Did You See the Handkerchief? Celia and the Problem of Inattentional Blindness in Ben Jonson’s Volpone,” Ben Jonson Journal 32.1 (2025): 1-24, https://doi.org/10.3366/bjj.2025.0386 

“When Il Grasso Becomes Calandrino: La Novella del Grasso Legnaiuolo and the Productive Failure of Literary Imitation,” Heliotropia 20 (2023): 19-39, https://www.heliotropia.org/20/brock.pdf

Title: Assistant Professor
Department: English

Email address: Email me

Office address
Sanford Hall 434