Joel P. Christensen,
Professor of Classics, Provost, and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, CUNY Graduate Center 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 taught at UT San Antonio and Brandeis University. 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).