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Details for Dr Vanda Zajko
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Vanda Zajko |
| Job title | Reader in Classics |
| Department | Department of Classics & Ancient History University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | B.A., Ph.D.(Exon.) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | classics literature mythology psychoanalytic theory feminist thought literary identifications |
| Areas of expertise | I have wide-ranging research interests in the reception of classical literature, particularly in the 20th century, and in mythology, psychoanalytic theory and feminist thought. I have published on a variety of classical authors including Homer, Aeschylus and Ovid and on Shakespeare, Keats, Melanie Klein, James Joyce, Freud, and Mary Shelley. I am currently working on Ted Hughes’ ‘Prometheus on the Crag’ poems for a collection on Ted Hughes and the Classics, a piece on Bion’s use of classical literature in his psychoanalytic writings, and the myth of Hermaphroditus for a collection entitled Queering Ovid. My major project is a book on literary identifications, which examines the concept of identification as part of the reading process from a variety of ancient and modern perspectives. I am also preparing a text book, which introduces critical theoretical concepts to those reading Greek and Latin literature in translation. |