Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller is a Professor of English and Graduate Program Director for the English MA program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, located in Wheatley Hall. As a medievalist and pedagogy specialist, his research examines the public life of the English language in educational environments, focusing on collaborative knowledge construction in medieval schoolbooks containing texts by Virgil and Ovid with extensive Latin and vernacular glosses.

Education:

• PhD from the University of Minnesota

Research Focus: Mueller's work spans medieval literary traditions, digital writing precursors, and pedagogical innovation. His expertise includes:

• History of Rhetoric and Book History
• Medieval manuscript culture and textual marginalia
• Digital humanities and multimodal composition
• Arthurian romance traditions and Chaucerian studies
• Critical pedagogy and curriculum development

His research demonstrates how medieval collaborative writing practices prefigure modern digital composition.

Publications: Mueller's scholarship consistently explores intersections between medieval textual practices and contemporary education. Recent works examine pedagogical applications of book history through public exhibitions, career integration in English curricula, and medieval rhetorical arts in digital contexts. His publications show sustained focus on multilingual knowledge construction across historical periods.