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Brandeis University: Waltham, MA, US

Professor (Classical Studies)
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Joel Christensen

Brandeis University: Waltham, MA, US

Professor of Classical Studies
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The University of Texas at San Antonio: San Antonio, TX, US

2007 to 2016 | Associate Professor (Philosophy and Classics)
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New York University: New York, NY, US

2001 to 2007 | PhD (Classics)
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Joel Christensen

Brandeis University: Waltham, Massachusetts, US

1997 to 2001 | BA/MA (Classical Studies/English)
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The war on words

Neos kosmos
2025-02-21 | Newspaper article | Author
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Part of ISSN: 0839-5918
Contributors: Joel Christensen
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The Return Is a Shabby CliffsNotes Version of the Odyssey

Hyperallergic
2024-12-22 | Book review | Author
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The old gods, new wars, and the battle for the past

Neos kosmos
2024-11-18 | Newspaper article | Author
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Part of ISSN: 0839-5918
Contributors: Joel Christensen
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Son to father

Neos kosmos
2024-06-18 | Newspaper article | Author
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Part of ISSN: 1321-1676
Contributors: Joel Christensen
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Finding Catharsis in the Pandemic: Reading Greek Tragedy Online

Pandemic Play: Community in Performance, Gaming, and the Arts
2024-05-21 | Book chapter | Author
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47312-8_5
Part of ISSN: 2947-5848
Part of ISBN: 9783031473111
Part of ISBN: 9783031473142
Contributors: Ownbey Carolyn; Quirk Catherine; Joel Christensen; O’Mahony Paul
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Dissent and violence, an epic Hellenic tradition

Neos Kosmos
2024-05-04 | Newspaper article | Author
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Part of ISSN: 1321-1676
Contributors: Joel Christensen
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Echoes of war crimes in Greek epics resonate in today’s world

Neos Kosmos
2023-11-15 | Newspaper article | Author
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Part of ISSN: 1321-1676
Contributors: Joel Christensen
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Tuberville’s attack on poetry in the military reveals lack of understanding of Ancient Greece’s martial history

Neos Kosmos
2023-09-09 | Newspaper article | Author
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When the world’s on fire and politics fail we can always look to Ancient Greeks

Neos Kosmos
2023-08-13 | Newspaper article | Author
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The U.S. Supreme Court and Ancient Greek notions of justice

Neos kosmos
2023-07-04 | Newspaper article | Author
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Contributors: Joel Christensen
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Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment

2023-05-26 | Book review
DOI: 10.1017/S0075426923000265
Part of ISSN: 0075-4269
Contributors: Christensen Joel
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Classical Deception

Neos kosmos
2023-04-29 | Newspaper article | Author
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Contributors: Joel Christensen
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From the Temple of Poseidon to the stadiums of Doha

Neos kosmos
2022-12-26 | Newspaper article | Author
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Contributors: Joel Christensen
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What Greek myth tells us about modern witchcraft

The Conversation U.S
2022-11-15 | Newspaper article | Author
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Contributors: Joel Christensen
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Iliad – lessons for modern society

Neos kosmos
2022-11-08 | Newspaper article | Author
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Contributors: Joel Christensen
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Joining the Birds

After Utopia: The Birds (exhibition catalog)
2022-09 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Joel Christensen; Amaya-Akkermans Arie; Onar Felekşan
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What's a laureate? A classicist explains the word's roots in Ancient Greek victors winning crowns of laurel leaves

The Conversation U.S
2022-09-30 | Magazine article | Author
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Contributors: Joel Christensen
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A Burden on The Earth

Neos Kosmos
2022-08-08 | Newspaper article | Author
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Ancient view of social media, free speech and noise

Neos Kosmos
2022-07-18 | Newspaper article | Author
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Shepherds, Fathers, and Ships: Ancient Greek Leadership Metaphors and Some Consequences,

Science et esprit : revue de philosophie et de théologie
2022-06-06 | Journal article | Author
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Part of ISSN: 0316-5345
Contributors: Joel Christensen
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Tallying the dead is one thing, giving them names would take an 'inexhaustible voice,' as the ancient Greeks knew

The Conversation
2022-06-06 | Magazine article | Author
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"Reading Greek epic through another massacre"

Neos Kosmos
2022-06-03 | Newspaper article | Author
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THE FIGURE OF MENELAUS

The Classical Review
2022-04 | Book review
DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X21002961
Contributors: Christensen Joel P
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SHEPHERDS, FATHERS, AND SHIPS: Ancient Greek Leadership Metaphors and Some Consequences

Science et Esprit
2022-04-21 | Journal article
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Joel Christensen

Digital Classics

TAPA
2022-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/apa.2022.0005
Part of ISSN: 2575-7199
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Joel Christensen
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Ancient Greeks also suffered poor leadership during plagues

Neos kosmos
2022-03-03 | Newspaper article
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Part of ISSN: 0839-5918
Contributors: Christensen Joel
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The Ancient Greeks also lived through a plague, and they too blamed their leaders for their suffering

The Conversation
2022-02-16 | Magazine article
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What the mythical Cupid can teach us about the meaning of love and desire

The Conversation
2022-02-10 | Magazine article | Author
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Part of ISSN: 2201-5639
Contributors: Joel Christensen
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Catharsis During COVID19

Teaching Classics in Pandemic Times (Didaskalika 7) edited by Wolfgang Polleichtner. 2021 Speyer: Kartoffeldruck. 34–48
2022-01-03 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9783939526483
Contributors: Joel Christensen
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Beautiful Bodies, Beautiful Minds: Some Applications of Disability Studies to Homer

Classical World
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/clw.2021.0020
Part of ISSN: 1558-9234
Contributors: Joel Christensen
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Beautiful bodies, beautiful minds: Some applications of disability studies to homer1

Classical World
2021 | Journal article
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Contributors: Christensen, J.
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Catharsis During COVID19

Teaching Classics in Pandemic Times
2021-12-06 | Book chapter
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Part of ISBN: 9783939526483
Part of ISBN: 3939526487
Contributors: Polleichtner Wolfgang; Christensen Joel
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'Catharsis During Covid-19: Learning about Greek Tragedy Online’

Teaching Classics in Pandemic Times.
2021-12-01 | Book chapter
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Joel Christensen

Epic

The Oxford Handbook of Heracles
2021-09-16 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190650988.013.20
Part of ISBN: 0190650982
Part of ISBN: 9780190650988
Contributors: Ogden Daniel; Christensen Joel; Barker Elton
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At the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, ancient Greece and Rome can tell us a lot about the links between collective trauma and going to war

The Conversation
2021-09-03 | Magazine article
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Contributors: Christensen Joel
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The Man Behind the Myth: Should We Question the Hero’s Journey?

Los Angeles Review of Books
2021-08-12 | Magazine article
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Contributors: Bond Sarah E.; Christensen Joel
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Not everyone cheered the ancient Olympic games, but the sacred games brought together rival societies

The Conversation
2021-07-28 | Magazine article
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What Greek epics taught me about the special relationship between fathers and sons

The Conversation
2021-06-15 | Magazine article
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How theater can help communities heal from the losses and trauma of the pandemic

The Conversation
2021-05-20 | Magazine article | Author
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Part of ISSN: 2201-5639
Contributors: Joel Christensen
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What Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ can teach us about reentering the world after a year of isolation

The Conversation
2021-04-22 | Magazine article | Author
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Homer's Thebes

2020 | Book
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Contributors: Christensen Joel; Barker Elton T. E. -
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Homer’s Thebes: Epic Rivalries and the Appropriation of Mythical Pasts

2020 | Other
DOI: 10.17613/jnyg-q237
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Contributors: Elton Barker; Joel Christensen
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Reading minds and leading men

2020 | Book
ISBN: 9781529718676
Contributors: Christensen Joel P
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Review of Rev. of Odyssey 1: Introduction, Translation, Commentary, by Simon Pulleyn

The journal of Hellenic studies / the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
2020 | Book review | Author
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Part of ISSN: 0075-4269
Contributors: Joel Christensen
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Singing the Klea Andrôn

Blackwell Companion to Leadership in the Greco-Roman World
2020 | Book chapter
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Contributors: Christensen Joel
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The Many-Minded Man The "Odyssey," Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic

Cornell University Press
2020 | Book
ISBN: 1501752340
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Joel Christensen

The Many-Minded Man

2020-12-15 | Book
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Contributors: Christensen Joel
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Reading Greek Tragedy Online

2020-03-10 | Other | Author
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Human cognition and narrative closure

The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory
2019 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781315691398-9
Part of ISBN: 9781138913523
Part of ISBN: 1138913529
Contributors: Christensen Joel
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Loving Latin at the End of the World

Boston review : a political and literary forum.
2019-11-21 | Magazine article
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9923906587201921

Part of ISSN: 0734-2306
Contributors: Christensen Joel
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