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Profiles of all current academic staff and postgraduate research students in the Classics & Ancient History department.
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Academic staff
| Name | Title | Research | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calvert, Ian | Lecturer in Classical Reception and English | egicc@bristol.ac.uk | English/Classics literary relations c.1550-c.1830 and the reception of Augustan poetry in the long eighteenth century. |
| Chidwick, Hannah-Marie | Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History | hc6198@bristol.ac.uk | Roman history, Latin literature, critical war studies, critical theory (esp. post-structuralist). |
| Cole, Richard | Lecturer in Digital Classics | richard.cole@bristol.ac.uk | The history and culture of classical antiquity and how this intersects with new media, esp. video games, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. |
| Coo, Lyndsay | Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Literature | l.coo@bristol.ac.uk |
Greek literature; tragedy and satyr play, especially Sophocles; fragments |
| Costantini, Leonardo | Lecturer in Classics | eu20184@bristol.ac.uk |
Latin and Greek literature (especially Apuleius, Fronto, Cicero, Vergil, and Lucian) and their transmission, Textual Criticism, Middle Platonism, Ancient Magic. |
| Eidinow, Esther | Chair in Ancient History | esther.eidinow@bristol.ac.uk | Ancient Greek social and cultural history, esp. religion and magic; myth; historiography (esp. Herodotus and Thucydides); cognitive humanities; history of emotions. |
| Finglass, Patrick | Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek | pf17430@bristol.ac.uk |
Greek literature, especially tragedy and lyric poetry; Greek myth; history of scholarship; textual criticism. |
| Hales, Shelley | Associate Professor in Art & Visual Culture | shelley.hales@bristol.ac.uk | Ancient (esp. Roman) art, the reception of Roman material culture. |
| Jansen, Laura | Associate Professor of Classics & Comparative Literature | laura.jansen@bristol.ac.uk |
Greek & Latin language, literature and philosophy; comparative and hybrid literatures; Classics & Absence Studies; classical antiquity in contemporary writing; Archaic Greek and modern poetics. |
| Knippschild, Silke | Senior Lecturer in Ancient History | clzsk@bristol.ac.uk | Ancient Near East, Greece, international relations and cross-cultural contacts. |
| Lampe, Kurt | Senior Lecturer in Classics | clkwl@bristol.ac.uk |
Mental health in antiquity and today; archetypal and psychoanalytic psychologies; ancient Greek myth, religion, and philosophy; old Norse religion and myth |
| Liveley, Genevieve | Professor of Classics | g.liveley@bristol.ac.uk |
Narratology, story-telling; ecocriticism; the non-human; futures and futurity; Classics, AI and digital humanities
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| Mackin Roberts, Ellie | Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Ancient History | ellie.mackinroberts@bristol.ac.uk | Archaic and Classical Greek Religion (especially Attic), archaeology of religion, Material Studies of Religion, Greek architectural and relief sculpture |
| Martin, Paul | Lecturer in Classics and Liberal Arts | paul.s.martin@bristol.ac.uk |
Humour studies; Greek and Roman comedy; Lucian of Samosata; Roman satire; parody; cognitive theories (esp. of humour/narratology); fragments |
| Michelakis, Pantelis | Reader in Classics | p.michelakis@bristol.ac.uk | Greek literature and theatre, cultural transmission, and classical reception. |
| Momigliano, Nicoletta | Professor of Aegean Studies | n.momigliano@bristol.ac.uk | Aegean bronze age, esp. Minoan Crete, and its reception. |
| O'Gorman, Ellen | Senior Lecturer in Classics | e.c.ogorman@bristol.ac.uk | Latin literature, Augustan and post-Augustan poetry and prose. |
| Sandwell, Bella | Senior Lecturer in Ancient History | bella.sandwell@bristol.ac.uk | Roman religion, early Christianity, late antiquity, cognitive approaches. |
| Shaw, Edwin | Lecturer in Ancient History | edwin.shaw@bristol.ac.uk | Roman Republican history and literature, especially historiography. |
| Scott, Naomi | A.G. Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies | naomi.scott@bristol.ac.uk | Fragments, Greek Comedy, Textual Transmission; ancient encyclopaedias. |
| Zajko, Vanda | Reader in Classics | v.zajko@bristol.ac.uk | Reception of classical literature, particularly in the 20th century. |
Emeriti staff
| Name | Title | Research | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buxton, Richard | richard.g.a.buxton@bristol.ac.uk | Professor Emeritus | Greek literature (esp. tragedy), mythology and religion |
| Clark, Gillian | gillian.clark@bristol.ac.uk | Professor Emerita | Late antiquity, early Christianity |
| Fowler, Robert | robert.fowler@bristol.ac.uk | Professor Emeritus | Early Greek language and literature, Greek myth and religion |
| Kennedy, Duncan | duncan.f.kennedy@bristol.ac.uk | Professor Emeritus | Latin literature, critical theory |
| Martindale, Charles | c.a.martindale@bristol.ac.uk | Professor Emeritus |
Other Teaching Staff
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Adam Brennan | adam.brennan@bristol.ac.uk |
| Sara Contini | sara.contini@bristol.ac.uk |
| Martina Delucchi | martina.delucchi@bristol.ac.uk |
| Maiken Mosleth-King | mm17686@bristol.ac.uk |