Brief Bio
Dr. Alan Haffa has directed the Gentrain Program at MPC since 2003. He has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and M.A.s in Comparative Literature and Classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studied Great Books at St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD., where he earned his BA. Dr. Haffa’s research interest was in classical Greek and Roman literature and how it was received and modified in the Renaissance. He can read Ancient Greek, Latin, and French. He earned a Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and finished his dissertation on Supplication in Epic: Homer, Virgil, and Tasso.” In addition to teaching Gentrain and English classes at MPC, Dr. Haffa has led Gentrain travel study groups to Ashland, OR, for the Shakespeare Festival.