Keyne Cheshire

Keyne Cheshire (he/they) is the Joel O. Conarroe Professor of Classics at Davidson College, in Davidson, North Carolina, where he teaches courses in Ancient Greek, Latin, and literary translation.

The past president of the North Carolina Classical Association and current regional vice president for the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Cheshire has published original poetry in Arion: Journal of Classics and the Humanities, a sourcebook on Alexander the Great (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and articles on Hellenistic and Greek lyric poetry. He has also published translations of Catullus 85 (The Sligo Journal) and of Sophocles’s tragedy “Women of Trachis” relocated to a mythic Wild West under the title Murder at Jagged Rock (The Word Works, 2015). His work also treats aspects of the epic poetry of Homer and Hesiod.

Other interests of his include Greek women lyric and epigrammatic poets, Euclid’s Elements, and the ancient sky. Outside the world of literature and antiquity, he plays some ultimate frisbee, practices beekeeping, and runs shoeless.