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Justine McConnell

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A headshot of Justine McConnell.

Dr Justine McConnell is Reader in Comparative Literature and Classical Reception at King’s College London, where she has worked since 2016. Previously, she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities), researching contemporary African, Caribbean, and ancient Greek poetics, a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the APGRD’s Performing Epic project, and a Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University on the Classicizing Chicago project.

Selected publications

Justine is the author of Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939 (OUP 2013), Performing Epic or Telling Tales (co-authored with Fiona Macintosh; OUP 2020), and Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean (Bloomsbury 2023). She has also co-edited four volumes on the reception of Graeco-Roman antiquity. 

For further details, see Justine McConnell's publications.