
Tom Sapsford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies, Boston College and has taught at Bates College in Maine and at the University of Southern California, where he also received his PhD in Classics. He was a 2019 fellow at the Centre for Ballet and the Arts at NYU and a 2023 fellow at the Centre for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University. Prior to pursuing the study of Classics, he was a professional dancer and choreographer working with institutions such as the Royal Ballet, the Royal Opera House, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Tom's academic interests more broadly are ancient and modern performance cultures, contemporary dance and the classical world, and the history of sexuality. He joined the APGRD as a visiting scholar from Michaelmas 2014 to Hilary 2015.
Tom has written a book entitled Performing the ‘Kinaidos': Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures (OUP, 2022) and contributions to Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome (Brill, 2023), The Routledge Handbook to Queer Theory and Classical Studies (Routledge, 2023) and Epic Performances, from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (OUP, 2018). Tom is currently working on a new project entitled Classics and the Gay Counterculture.