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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 Email Research
Bloomfield-Gadelha, Connie Lecturer in Classics and Liberal Arts connie.bloomfield-gadelha@bristol.ac.uk  classical reception, popular culture, carnival, Brazil, Latin American studies, orality, performance, anthropology, translation, religious syncretism
Calvert, Ian Lecturer in Classical Reception and English 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 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

Greek literature; tragedy and satyr play, especially Sophocles; fragments

Costantini, Leonardo Lecturer in Classics

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    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

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. 
Hall, Claire Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History claire.hall@bristol.ac.uk  Greek and Roman cultural history; ancient religion; ancient science, especially medicine and astronomy/astrology; early Christianity; history of philosophy, especially epistemology and philosophy of time.
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

 

Martin, Paul Lecturer in Classics and Liberal Arts

Humour studies; Greek and Roman comedy; Lucian of Samosata; Roman satire; parody; cognitive theories (esp. of humour/narratology); fragments

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 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 Email 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 Professor Emeritus  

Other Teaching Staff

Name Email
Adam Brennan adam.brennan@bristol.ac.uk
Sara Contini
Martina Delucchi
Maiken Mosleth-King
Frances Pickworth f.pickworth@bristol.ac.uk 
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