Pete Christiansen

Prof. Peder G. Christiansen was awarded a B.A., with majors in History and in Latin, by Carroll College in 1956 and an M.A. in History by the University of Wisconsin, in 1957. After teaching History and Latin in public high schools in Wisconsin, he returned to the University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Latin in 1963. He has been at Texas Tech University ever since. He teaches a wide variety of courses in Classics, Greek, and in Latin, but his signature courses are in Comparative Mythology and Science Fiction as Literature. His research has focused upon the Late Latin poet Claudius Claudianus. His publications include a Concordance to Claudian, in collaboration with William J. Dominik and James E. Holland (1988). With the same two collaborators he has produced concordances to the Carmina of Sidonius (1993), the Epistulae of Sidonius (1997), and the Anthologia Latina (2002). He has also produced an article on the “Classical Humanism of Philip K. Dick”.