Alan F. Keele

Alan F. Keele is Professor Emeritus of German Language and Literature at BYU. He was born in Provo, educated in Laramie, Wyoming, and Wayne County, Utah. He attended the University of Utah as a chemical engineering major until his mission call to Germany in 1962. After his mission, he came to BYU to teach German in the newly created Language Training Mission. He earned his BA at BYU in 1967 and his PhD in 1971 at Princeton. He began his teaching career at BYU the same year. Keele is married to Linda Kay Sellers, and they have six children as well as eight grandchildren. He served twice as a BYU campus bishop. He is the author of a number of books and articles about German literature and the Mormons in the Third Reich and has translated German poetry with his late friend, the poet Leslie Norris.