Pro-Proctor to the Senior Proctor

Dr Christopher Metcalf is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at The Queen's College, and Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literature in the Faculty of Classics. He grew up in continental Europe and west Africa, and came to Britain in 2003 to study classical and ancient Near Eastern languages in Edinburgh, Oxford and London, graduating with a DPhil in Classics from the University of Oxford in 2013. He joined Queen’s and the Faculty in October 2016, where he teaches a broad range of papers in Classical literature.

His research interests include the literatures and religions of early Greece and of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds in general, and he has published research on early Greek poetry and its relationships with ancient Near Eastern texts (The Gods Rich in Praise: Early Greek and Mesopotamian Religious Poetry, OUP 2015) as well as on previously undeciphered Sumerian literary texts from ancient Mesopotamia (Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection: Literary Sources on Old Babylonian Religion, Pennsylvania State UP 2019).