Colin MacCormack’s main research focuses on Greek and Latin poetry, especially epic and didactic from the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods. While trained as a classical philologist, Colin’s teaching, research and outreach intersect with a range of theoretical approaches, particularly posthumanism and animal studies, as well as the reception of the ancient world in popular media. His work on 18^th and 19^th Black scholars and educators in the South has been featured in the collaborative museum exhibition Black Classicists in Texas. He also hosts the podcast Movies We Dig, which discusses the reception of the history, myth and culture ancient Greece and Rome in popular film, television and video games.

• 2021, “Lessons about the closure of Howard’s Classics department,” with A. Haimson Lushkov and P. Chaudhuri, The Hill, 18 May 2021.
• 2020, “Werewolves in the Greco-Roman world.” In P. Tomassini & S. Béthume (eds.), Fantastic Beasts in Antiquity: Investigating Mankind’s Imaginary through Archaeology, Philology, History and Philosophy. Fervet Opus, Presses universitaires de Louvain.
• 2019, “Filming the Fable – Animals, The Lion King, and the Humanity of the Ancient Fable,” Society of Classical Studies Blog, 2019.

• “Knowledge, Fear and Snakes: The Influence of Nicander on Lucan’s Bellum Civile IX.” Classical Philology.
•  “Imperial Zoology and Poetic Innovation in Pseudo-Oppian’s Cynegetica,” In S. Renker (ed.), Pseudo-Oppian’s Cynegetica: On the Hunt for Ethics and Poetics.  Franz Steiner Verlag.