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Benjamin Eldon Stevens (PhD University of Chicago, BA Reed College) works on ‘classical’ Latin literature, especially epic and lyric poetry; Roman culture and the many sub(cultures) of the Roman Empire; ‘classical reception studies,’ i.e., how ancient materials are transmitted and transformed in modern genres and media, especially science fiction, fantasy, horror, film, and games; Underworld journeys and other depictions of the afterlife; and cultural histories of the senses, including silence.

Beyond scholarly articles, Dr. Stevens is the author of Silence in Catullus (University of Wisconsin 2013) and co-editor of four volumes of essays on receptions: Classical Traditions in Science Fiction (with Brett M. Rogers, Oxford University Press 2015), Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy (with Rogers, OUP 2017), Frankenstein and Its Classics: the Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction (with Jesse Weiner and Rogers, Bloomsbury 2018), Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy (with Rogers and Weiner, Bloomsbury 2019), and Memories of Antiquity: Classical Reception and Memory Studies (with Madeleine Scherer and Jakob Schneider, De Gruyter 2026); he is also a published translator of literature in French and Spanish. His publications may be found on his CV and listed .

Before joining the department at ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø, Dr. Stevens taught at schools including the University of Colorado at Boulder, Bard College, Hollins University, Trinity University, and Howard University, as well as for the Bard Prison Initiative. He hails from the Great Plains and Colorado’s Front Range, and lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife, Jenny, an expert in public policy, and their son, Abraham, and expert in happy mayhem.