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Dr Tori McKee serves as Senior Tutor, Governing Body Fellow, and Director of Studies for Classics at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, where she ensures comprehensive academic and pastoral support for all students through collaboration with Tutors, Directors of Studies, and the MCR committee while personally supervising Classics tutees.
Her educational background includes a first degree from Dartmouth College, an MPhil in Greek and Latin Literature from Oriel College, Oxford (dissertation on twentieth-century Hippolytus reception), and ongoing part-time doctoral research at the Open University examining thematic clusters in the Hippolytus/Phaedra myth across Euripides' Hippolytus, Seneca's Phaedra, and Racine's Phèdre as an interconnected corpus.
Dr McKee's research pioneers interdisciplinary Classical Reception Studies, analyzing adaptations of Greek/Latin tragedies through drama, dance, opera, and film while challenging traditional source-text hierarchies. Her work emphasizes cross-genre myth transformation and adaptation theory within Mediterranean literary traditions.
With over 15 years of administrative expertise, she previously served eight years as Tutorial Department Manager at Jesus College—deputizing as Senior Tutor, leading pandemic response strategies, and contributing to welfare systems—following roles in admissions at Wadham College, Oxford, and operations management at Cambridge's Disability Resource Centre.
She actively mentors for the Accessibility & Disability Resource Centre and co-developed the University's bystander intervention training under the Breaking the Silence Campaign, demonstrating sustained commitment to student wellbeing and institutional equity initiatives beyond core tutorial duties.
