Alan Keele

Alan Frank Keele (born November 17, 1942) is an American writer and languages and humanities professor. Keele teaches at Brigham Young University (BYU) where he is the Ludwig-Weber-Siebach Chair of German and Humanities and has previously served as chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and was associate dean of Honors and General Education. He has served on numerous departmental, college, university and professional committees and councils, contributing to the development of BYU's academics and services. Keele has participated in the Modern Language Association, the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Language, the German Studies Association, and has chaired the German section of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.

At BYU, Keele has taught German language and literature, and some honors and humanities courses. He received several honors for his academic work, including Honors Professor of the Year in 1992, the Abraham O. Smoot citizenship award in 1995, the Karl G. Maeser General Education Professorship in 1996, and the Alcuin award in 2007.

Published works Keele has published on postwar German literature, on various social history topics, and two vocabulary dictionaries. He contributed to translations of the 55 Sonnets to Orpheus and the ten Duino Elegies of Rainer Maria Rilke, and Walter Kempowski's novel Dog Days. He also created a 10,000 page concordance of the works of Kempowski.

Keele has also written on topics of interest to the Latter-day Saint community, such as pre-existence and the Mormon resistance movement in Nazi Germany. His book on Helmuth Hübener was made into a PBS documentary by KBYU. HÜBENER, a major motion picture with a former working title of "Truth and Treason," starring Haley Joel Osment, has been stalled in "current projects" status since 2008. For his body of work, Keele received a Special Award in Criticism from the Association for Mormon Letters in 2008. With Marvin H. Folsom, Keele has contributed to foreign language texts based on the Bible and the Book of Mormon.

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