Joel Christensen (he/his) is Professor of Classics at the CUNY Graduate Center where he also serves as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. Previously Joel served as Chair of Classical Studies and Chair of the Brandeis Faculty Senate. Joel previously taught for nine years at the University of Texas at San Antonio. 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).