Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr.

Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. is professor of classics and former Director of the MAT Program at University of Massachusetts. He received a PhD from Loyola University of Chicago. Kitchell has won several teaching awards and has presented over 100 scholarly talks. He has been active in promoting the study of classics for such groups as the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, where he served as president, and the American Philological Association, as Vice-President for Education, and as the president of the American Classical League. Kitchell is the coeditor with Thomas J. Sienkewicz of the LEGAMUS series. Kitchell is coauthor with Sean Smith of Catullus: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2006), author of Animals in the Ancient World from A to Z (Routledge, 2014), The Other Middle Ages (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2016), They Said It First (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2019), and author of numerous articles and book chapters.