Keating McKeon is a scholar of ancient Greek literature and history.
Keating’s current monograph project considers the role of nostalgia in fifth-century BCE Athenian conceptions of autocracy. He is also developing a book project that explores how epic models for rulership are mediated through the act of Homeric quotation in Greco-Roman antiquity. Hepresented an excerpt from this work at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies. A separate article that proposes Herodotus’ refashioning of an ordeal recorded in the Old Persian text of the Bisotun inscription appears in American Journal of Philology in September 2020.
Keating is a Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University and Faculty Associate of the Harvard Writing Project. Originally from West Hartford, Connecticut, Keating received his PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard, authoring a dissertation entitled Despotic Nostalgias: Classical Athens and the Autocratic Return, and completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia University and the University of Cambridge, winning Columbia's Caverly Prize for a thesis addressing the significance of gendered sound in Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes. At Harvard, his research interests have ranged from Homeric simile to Achaemenid history, and he has presented his work at conferences in Greece, Britain, and the United States. Keating is a twelve-time recipient of Harvard's Certificates of Distinction and Excellence in Teaching.
In his free time, Keating is an outdoorsman and an exhibited photographer. He is passionate about cinema, grower champagne, and points of similarity between Greek lyric poetry & contemporary rap music.
