Benjamin Eldon Stevens

Benjamin Eldon Stevens (1977-), Ph.D., is a teacher and scholar with specialties in 'classical receptions,' or ancient stories retold, in science fiction / fantasy / horror and film; and Latin literature and Roman history, which he studies for ideas about language, cultural histories of the senses, and silence. He is the author of _Silence in Catullus_ (University of Wisconsin Press 2013) and co-editor of volumes of essays on _Classical Traditions in Science Fiction_ (Oxford University Press 2015), _Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy_ (OUP 2017), _Frankenstein and Its Classics: The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction_ (Bloomsbury Academic 2018), and _Once and Future Antiquities: Displacing Classics in Science Fiction and Fantasy_ (Bloomsbury Academic 2019). Currently he teaches at Howard University in Washington, D.C..