# Alexander Riehle Associate Professor of Classics Steering Committee, Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies Ph.D. University of Munich ![ariehle.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/medievalstudies/files/ariehle.jpg?itok=bM8LPJGv) location\_on Boylston Hall 226 smartphone [617.496.0970](tel:617.496.0970) email laptop\_windows [Department of Classics](https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/people/alexander-riehle) Alexander Riehle is a scholar of Byzantine literature whose work addresses epistolography, rhetoric, performance and gender. He is the editor of *A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography* (Brill, 2020) and has co-edited three further volumes: a collection of essays on late Byzantine history and culture in honor of Franz Tinnefeld (*Koinotaton doron*, De Gruyter, 2016), *Epistolary Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond. An Anthology with Critical Essays* (Routledge, 2021) and a Festschrift for Albrecht Berger (*Anekdota Byzantina*, De Gruyter, 2023). His first monograph comprises an edition with translation and literary-historical analysis of the letter-collections of the late Byzantine aristocrat Nikephoros Choumnos (De Gruyter, 2023). He is currently working on a history of women’s writing in Byzantium. - ## People [Faculty](/people/faculty) [Standing Committee](/committee-members) [Special Program in Byzantine Studies](/people/special-program-byzantine-studies)