Bruce M. King teaches Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit literature at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, where he is also the Program Head of the Language Learning and Critique program. His research and writing interests include epic, the literature and philosophy of archaic and classical Greece, ancient materialism, and comparative wisdom traditions. He is especially interested in anthropological, psychoanalytic, and queer approaches to antiquity (and now). His book on the Iliad, tentatively entitled Akhilleus All Unheroic; Perfection and Destruction in the Iliad, is in the works.