Dr Justine McConnell is Reader in Comparative Literature and Classical Reception at King’s College London. Prior to coming to King’s in 2016, Justine was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford, researching contemporary African, Caribbean, and ancient Greek poetics. She had previously held postdoctoral fellowships at Northwestern University in Illinois and at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) at Oxford. She has a BA in Classics from Cambridge, an MPhil in English Literature from Bristol, and a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London.
She 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 publications, see Justine McConnell's full publications>>