Alexandra Schultz is an assistant professor in the Department of Classics. She specializes in ancient Greek literature and in the cultural and intellectual history of Greco-Roman antiquity. She received her BA in Classics and Computer Science from Brown University in 2011 and her MSt in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from Christ Church, Oxford in 2012 with funding from a US-UK Fulbright award. She then worked for two years as a software engineer at Microsoft before starting a PhD in Classical Philology at Harvard University. In 2021 she graduated from her PhD and took up a Research Fellowship in Classics at Jesus College, Cambridge. Since 2023 she has been a part of Dartmouth's Department of Classics.

Her current book project, The Mirage of Alexandria: A New History of Libraries in Greco-Roman Antiquity, argues that the modern understanding of ancient libraries is the product of over two millennia of mythmaking. By radically rewriting the history of libraries in Greco-Roman antiquity without a single great library at the center, and tracking down the origins of popular legends about the Library of Alexandria, I demonstrate how communities from classical antiquity to today have used libraries, and stories about libraries, to articulate their relationship to the past. Schultz has also written about local canons of Greek literature in the Hellenistic period; the participation and exploitation of enslaved persons in the history of Roman text collections; anecdotes about plundered libraries as a means of articulating elite Roman identity; and how a feminist and philological reading of Sappho's poetry reveals the poet's interest in women's agency.