Andrew Kenrick

Andrew Kenrick (he/him) holds a PhD in Life Writing from the University of East Anglia. He currently teaches Creative Non-fiction at the University of Cambridge and Biography at CityLit in London. He specialises in writing ancient biography, especially focused on marginalised figures from the Roman world. His first full-length book, Rex Juba, a biography of the Roman client-king Juba II of Mauretania, is forthcoming. He is currently researching the lives of queer Romans. He lives in Norwich with his partner.

Key Research Interests

1st Century BC/AD Rome; ancient food and dining; perceptions/portrayals of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation in the ancient world; biography.

Academic Background
BA Hons in Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham (2002)

MA in Biography and Creative Non-fiction, University of East Anglia (2017)

PhD in Life Writing, University of East Anglia (2023, thesis title - African Kings, Roman Rule: The Life of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene of Mauretania)

Awards
Tony Lothian Prize for Best Unpublished Biography (2023)

Career
Prior to returning to academia, Andrew worked as an editor for over 10 years. He holds a PhD in Life Writing, his thesis developed a new methodology for writing biographies of ancient characters, using Juba II and Cleopatra Selene of Mauretania as his test case. His area of research interest is object-based biography and life writing, as well as non-fiction publishing. He is the founder and editor of Hinterland, a quarterly print magazine of creative non-fiction. His first full-length book, a trade biography of Juba II of Mauretania, is forthcoming.

Teaching Interests
Publishing; non-fiction; archives; archival research; biography; archaeology.