Brett Robbins earned his Ph.D. in Classical Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington (dissertation [2004]: Framing Achilles: Narrative Space in the Iliad), and his B.A. and M.A. in Classics at University of California, Santa Barbara. He has traveled extensively, e.g., visiting over 100 ancient Greek sites with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, delivering talks onsite at the Temple of Zeus at Olympia and the Theater of Epidaurus. He joined the Department of Classics and Humanities at San Diego State University in 2005, where he teaches courses in ancient Greek and Latin languages, myth, culture, etymology, drama, and cinema.