Joel Christensen (he/his) is Professor of Classics at the CUNY Graduate Centerwhere he also serves as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. Previously Joel taught at UT San Antonio and Brandeis University. His research interests include early Greek poetry, myth, and literary theory. With Elton Barker, Joel has published Homer's a Beginner's Guide (2013) and Homer's Thebes(2020). He has also recently published The Many-Minded Man: The Odyssey, Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic (2020) and Storylife: On Epic, Language, and Living Things (2025).