Today, I’m talking to Rachel Kousser, author of Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great. As a Classics professor, she had to make a big adjustment from argument-focused academic writing to story-focused narrative nonfiction. Her writing partner, Ilyon Woo, was critical to her success.
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RACHEL KOUSSER writes and teaches about Alexander the Great, ancient iconoclasm, and the representation of gender and power in the Mediterranean world. For her work, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Getty Research Institute, and the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts. Her most recent book is Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great (HarperCollins 2024). She’s also published articles in Art Bulletin, American Journal of Archaeology, and Res: Archaeology and Aesthetics as well as two books with Cambridge University Press. Rachel is currently the chair of the Classics Program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and a professor of ancient art and archaeology at Brooklyn College. She has a B.A. in Classics and Art History from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
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