Classics

Álvaro-Enrique Otero Pires

Ph.D. in Classics
Dissertation Habits of Mind from the Habits of Beasts: Grammar, Rhetoric, and Nature in the Greek Physiologus

Biography

Alvaro matriculated in 2007 at Santa Clara University. He spent the 2009-2010 academic year studying at the University of St. Andrews and graduated from Santa Clara University in 2011 with a BA in Classical Studies. He went on to pursue graduate study at the University of Arizona, where he earned an MA in Classics in 2014. That same year, he entered the Ph.D. program in Classics at Brown University. During the course of his graduate studies, Álvaro has presented papers at Harvard University (2014), Universität Trier (2019), and at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (2020). In 2023, he published a portion of his dissertation research as a contribution to a peer-reviewed volume in the AKAN-Einzelschriften series for the working group Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption (AKAN). While completing his doctoral program, Álvaro has taught as an adjunct professor at Providence College (2022-2023) and Dickinson College (2024).

He will be an Adjunct Professor, First-Year Seminar Program, Dickinson College.

Teaching

Adjunct Professor, Providence College (2022-2023)  

Adjunct Professor, Dickinson College (2024)

Adjunct Professor, First-Year Seminar Program, Dickinson College (2025)