Steve Reece grew up in the town of Niigata on the West coast of Northern Japan, where he lived until entering college. He earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Classical and European Languages at the University of Hawaii, and a Ph.D. in Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught at UCLA, Texas A@M University, and Vanderbilt University (Mellon Fellow), before coming in 1994 to St. Olaf College, where he is now Full Professor in the Department of Classics.Steve has published a wide variety of articles and book chapters on Homeric studies, New Testament studies, comparative oral traditions, historical linguistics, and pedagogy; he is also the author of a book about the rituals of ancient Greek hospitality titled The Stranger's Welcome: Oral Theory and the Aesthetics of the Homeric Hospitality Scene (University of Michigan Press). He has just completed a monograph-length project on early Greek etymology titled Homer's Winged Words: Junctural Metanalysis in Homer in the Light of Oral-Formulaic Theory (E.J. Brill Press), for which he received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; and he is just beginning a project on classical allusions in the New Testament, for which he received a FaCE grant through the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.Steve has done research at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Lord Fellowship), the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri (NEH Fellowship), the American Academy in Rome (Fulbright Fellowship), and the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He has lectured broadly, is called on frequently to act as referee for professional journals and university presses, and has been a consultant for IBM, E.J. Brill Press, and the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition. He recently served a term as President of the Classical Association of Minnesota.In his spare time Steve is a hopeful fisherman, a "wannabee" basketball player, and an indolent bike-rider. Besides being able to speak Japanese with a Tennessee accent, his greatest claims to fame are having climbed a dozen active volcanoes and having served as a consultant for the Hollywood production of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures. He is married to Rhonda, Minister of Music at Bethel Lutheran Church in Northfield; they have a son Taylor, a senior Math, Computer Science, and Education major at Saint Olaf College, and a daughter Hannah, a first-year Nursing major at Pacific Lutheran University.