• I have been a Professor of Classical Studies at Trinity since 2001, a former chair of the Department, and former Director of the Collaborative for Learning and Teaching, Trinity’s faculty and staff development center.  As a classics professor, I’m especially interested in how the ancient world is reflected in contemporary media, including novels, performance, and even video games! My second book, Antiquity Now (Cambridge 2015), is now in paperback, and a ’sequel’ is in the works (“Antiquity Tomorrow”). Recent articles—published and forthcoming—include those on the Netflix TV show Troy: Fall of a City; the Broadway musical Hadestown; and adaptations of Homer for the contemporary stage. I’m proud that I’ve been teaching a cutting-edge course on classical reception since 2003—Antiquity and Modernity—along with a recent spin-off: Reimagining Tragedy. I team-teach the latter with my awesome colleague in theater, Kyle Gillette, with a focus on guiding students in the creation of their own versions of Greek or Roman tragedy. (And not just in theater! We’ve had podcasts, board games, photo shoots, collages, short stories, trailers, and some excessively traumatizing props.) 

    For almost twenty years, I’ve been an occasional theater and opera critic for the San Antonio Current and am passionate about the role and power of ‘public humanism’: the dissemination of scholarship and analysis to a broader public. Some of my columns may be found here. 

    For a copy of my full c.v. please email me at tjenkins@trinity.edu.

    • Ph.D., Harvard University
    • B.A., Yale University
    • "Translations of Homer to the Stage," in The Companion to the Translation of Greek and Latin Epic. Wiley-Blackwell (Forthcoming.) Edd. Armstrong and Lanieri. 8000 words.
    • "Augustan Poetry and the Age of Rust: Music and Metaphor in Mitchell's Hadestown," in Texts, Authors and Readers: A Volume in Honor of Richard Tarrant. Edd. Lauren Curtis and Irene Peirano Garrison, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Supplement, projected publication date 2020.
    • "Homer Since 1900," in The Cambridge Guide to Homer. 2019. 3000 words. General editor: Corinne Pache.
    • “The Reception of Hesiod in the 20th and 21st Centuries,” in The Oxford Handbook to Hesiod. 2018. Chapter 30. Edd. Alexander Loney and Stephen Scully. Oxford University Press. Pp. 479-494.
    •   Antiquity Now: The Classical World in the Contemporary American Imagination. 2015. Cambridge University Press.
    •  “Metaphor and Modernity: American Themes in Herakles and Dionysus in ’69,” in The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas. 2015. Chapter 26. Edd. Bosher, Macintosh, McConnell, and Rankine. Oxford University Press. Pp. 457-473.
    • “Heavy Metal Homer: Countercultural appropriations of the Odyssey in Graphic Novels,” in Classics and Comics. 2011. Edd. George Kovacs and C.W. Marshall. Oxford University Press. Pp. 221-236.
    • "Livia the Princeps: Gender and Ideology in the Consolatio Ad Liviam." Helios, 2010.
    • "X-Rated Sophocles: Alice Tuan's Ajax (por Nobody)." Helios 38.2. Pp. 59-70.
    • "Farcical Philology: Alexander's Shewan's Games at a Ancient St. Andrews" in Metaphilogy. Histories and Languages of Philology. 2009. Ed. Pascale Hummel.
    • "The 'Ultra-modern' Euripides of Verrall, H.D., and MacLeish," in Classical and Modern Literature. 2007.
    • Intercepted Letters: Epistolarity and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature. 2006. Rowman and Littlefield.
    • "An American "Classic": Hillman and Cullen's Mimes of the Courtesans," Arethusa (2005)

    “Translations of Homer to the Stage,” for The Companion to the Translation of Greek and Latin Epic (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming). Edd. Armstrong and Lanieri. 8000 words.

    • Classical Drama
    • Augustan Literature
    • Reception Theory
    • Gender Studies
    • Ancient and Modern Tragedy
    • HUMA 1600: Great Books of the Ancient World
    • All Levels of Ancient Greek and Latin
    • Classical Mythology 
    • Fellow, American Council on Education, 2015-2016, DePaul University
    • Fellow, Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, 2006-7 
    • Winner, Lambda Classical Caucus’s Paul Rehak Award for Best Article in LGBT studies (for “Hillman and Cullen’s Mimes of the Courtesans”), 2006.
    • Member, "Trinity Tomorrow" Strategic Planning Committee, 2013-2015
    • Director, HUMA 1600, "Readings in Western Cultures," 2008.
    • Commissioner, Tenure and Promotion Commission, 2009–11.
    • Theater critic, San Antonio Current, 2004–present.