Born in Brooklyn, educated in the New York City school system, Eugene Roth graduated from Columbia (B.A., cum laude, 1958), where he majored in English literature and minored in Greek and Latin. He completed course work and exams “with distinction” for the Ph.D. In English at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1963. In 1962-63, he was an instructor in English at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana. In 1964 he returned to New York from his long sojourn in America to teach in the English Department of Adelphi University. In 1964, he was hired as an instructor in English at The Washington Square College of NYU. In 1977, he taught a seminar on the Italian Renaissance in the B.A. Program for Adults at NYU, then returned to Adelphi University where he taught Shakespeare regularly from 1975-1993. He was Director of The Honors Program in Liberal Studies from 1975-1993; when the program metamorphosed into The Honors College in Liberal Studies, he was appointed Assistant Dean of the College, then Associate Dean. In 2000, he retired from Adelphi, having taught there and in The Honors College with great satisfaction. My education and teaching life have been steeped in the great books of Western literature. The itch to guide people on a journey of understanding through great works of the literary imagination is upon me again, so I am eager to begin again Dante's visionary journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise with a class of willing and courageous travelers.