Andrew M. McClellan

Andrew M. McClellan is the James J. Stansell Associate 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. He has published numerous articles on Homer, Virgil, Lucan, Silius Italicus, Josephus, Prudentius, Mary Shelley, and Lil Wayne. His book, Abused Bodies in Roman Epic, was published by Cambridge University Press. McClellan's work tends to gravitate toward topics of violence, horror, and the grotesque.

His current projects explore cannibalism as a literary metaphor, a comparative study of Greek and Latin poetry and hip-hop, ecocidal violence in Greco-Roman thought, paronomastic puns in Milton, and a few articles on the reception of Homeric poetry in DC and Marvel comics. He’s also published many 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 films.