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Katherine Lu Hsu is Assistant Professor of Classics at College of the Holy Cross, USA. She is author of The Violent Hero: Heracles in the Greek Imagination (2021) and articles on Greek tragedy and myth. She has also taught at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA, where she directed the Latin/Greek Institute.

David Schur is Associate Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA, and the CUNY Graduate Center. He has written studies of Heraclitus, Homer, and Plato, as well as Kafka and Freud. He is especially interested in methodologies of literary close reading.

Brian P. Sowers is Assistant Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA. He has published on late antique reading communities, early Christian female martyrs, and the use of ancient literature to resist contemporary white supremacy. His first book is In Her Own Words: The Life and Poetry of Aelia Eudocia (2020).