Rate My Professor Rex Warner

Rex Warner (1905-1986) was a distinguished author, translator, and professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where he served from 1964 to 1974 in roles including University Professor of English and Special University Professor. Born on 9 March 1905 in Birmingham, England, to Frederick Ernest Warner, a clergyman, and Kathleen Warner, he received his education at St. George's School, Harpenden, and Wadham College, Oxford, earning a B.A. in 1928 and M.A. in 1933, with a first-class honors in Classical Moderations in 1925. Warner's early career encompassed teaching positions at the University of Liverpool as assistant lecturer in classics (1931-1932), Merchant Taylors' School as modern languages master (1932-1935), and the University of London as lecturer in Greek (1935-1937). From 1937 to 1945, he was Director of the British Institute in Athens and Professor of Greek at the National University of Athens. During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force as a Flight Lieutenant. Postwar, he was Principal of the Department of English at the Ionian University, Corfu (1945-1947), before moving to the United States as Tallman Professor of Classics at Bowdoin College (1961-1962).