Andrew M. McClellan

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Andrew M. McClellan (Ph.D., University of British Columbia) is the James J. Stansell Assistant Professor of Classics at San Diego State University. His research and teaching interests range widely across ancient Greco-Roman literature and culture and the post-classical reception of the ancient world in the arts. His work tends to gravitate toward topics of violence, horror, and the grotesque.

McClellan has published articles and book chapters on corpse abuse in Homer's “Iliad” (“Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic,” vol. 1, 2017), "necropolitics" in Lucan's “Bellum Civile” (“Lucan’s Imperial World: The Bellum Civile in its Contemporary Context,” 2020), zombiism in Silius Italicus' “Punica” (“PLLS,” vol. 18, 2021), intertextual violence in Prudentius' “Psychomachia” (“Latin Poetry and its Reception: Essays for Susanna Braund,” 2021), classical reception in Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein” (“Frankenstein and Its Classics: The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction,” 2018), and cannibalistic imagery in American rapper Lil Wayne's oeuvre (“New Literary History,” 53.1, 2022).

Articles are forthcoming on Josephus' depiction of the fall of Jerusalem in The Oxford Handbook of Josephus, and on metapoetry in Virgil's “Aeneid.” His book, “Abused Bodies in Roman Epic,” was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. He’s currently writing a monograph on the somatics of cannibalistic imagery in literary critical discourse. The book explores the language of food and consumption through the lens of theorizing about poetic imitatio (imitation) from antiquity to the present. He’s also published numerous public humanities articles, including pieces on: the horrors of terroristic violence in the United States and abroad; ecofascism and environmentalism; and rhetorical violence from antiquity to modern action film for The Conversation.