Dauenhauer, Richard 1942-

Richard Dauenhauer received a B.A. in Russian and Slavic Languages from Syracuse University, an M.A. in German from the University of Texas, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin. He studied in Finland under a Fulbright Fellowship in 1966 and 1967. He came to Alaska in the late 1960's to teach at Alaska Methodist University (now Alaska Pacific University), and also became involved in studies of the Tlingit Languages and oral tradition. He is an author and poet and has published several volumes of poetry, as well as a number of translations of poetry from German, Russian, Finnish, Classical Greek, and other languages. His published works include: Glacier Bay Concerto, Phenologies, and Snow in May: an Anthology of Finnish Writing, 1945-1972, which he co-edited with Phillip Binham. In 1981, Richard Dauenhaur was named to a four-year term as Poet Laureate of Alaska.