Mark Payne is Professor of Classics and the College, and in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

He is a leading international promoter of links between ancient Greek poetics and contemporary trends in philosophy and critical theory.

Mark has published widely in Greek lyric poetry, Hellenistic poetry, classical reception studies, eco-criticism, and post-human studies. His published books include: Hontology: Depressive Anthropology and the Shame of Life (2018), The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination (2010), and Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction (2007).

His visit to Warwick is kindly sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre Visiting Speakers Fund.