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Alex Poulos is a technologist and philologist based just outside of Washington, DC. While studying Computer Science at North Carolina State University (BS, 2012), he became deeply interested in Ancient Greek and then Latin. This led to an MA (2015) and PhD (2019) in Greek and Latin at Catholic University of America, where he specialized in late Greek poetry. His dissertation studied the influence of Callimachus and Callimacheanism in the verse of Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 330–390 AD). Gregory was the first Christian poet working in Greek to leave a large body of poetry written in classical meters.
Dr. Poulos has published articles on text critical matters in the letters of Theodoret of Cyr and on the poems of Gregory of Nazianzus. He also has an article on the philosophical development of Origen of Alexandria in the forthcoming Teacher of the Logos: Rediscovering Origen's Last Work (CUA Press). At present, he is engaged in producing an English anthology of classicizing early Christian poetry written in Greek and Latin.
Dr. Poulos resides in Hyattsville, MD with his wife and four children. By day, he works as a software engineer for a major audio streaming company.