Dr. Brian McPhee received his doctorate in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2020). Before coming to Bilkent, he held teaching and research positions at the American Academy in Rome; Indiana University, Bloomington; and Durham University in England. His research specialization is ancient Greek and Latin poetry, especially mythological epic and Hellenistic poetry. He has published and given talks on a broad range of topics within this ambit; a current listing of his publications can be found here. Some of his recurring interests include the artistic exploitation of the mythological tradition, issues of sex and gender in ancient literature, and cultural constructions of monstrosity. His first book, currently forthcoming from Brill, examines the reception of the Homeric Hymns, a body of Archaic and Classical Greek religious poetry anciently attributed to Homer, in the 3rd-century BCE Alexandrian epic, the Argonautica, by Apollonius of Rhodes. He is excited to join his students here at Bilkent in grappling with the great questions of life raised by literature both ancient and modern.