Faculty Member, Classical Studies
Lecturer
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My research draws on a wide range of ancient Greek literary works. I have recently published a book with Oxford University Press (January 2009), entitled 'Entering the Agon: Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography and Tragedy'. Based on my AHRB-funded PhD (Cantab.), it investigates the interrelationship between literature and culture by analysing representations of debate across three major genres within a hermeneutic framework of institutional dissent from authority. In 2003 I was invited to participate in the inaugural International Seminar in the Humanities (based at the Venice International University), a month-long workshop held over two years which explored the intersections between Near-Eastern, Greek and Latin literature and culture, and which has since generated a series of articles and further collaborative work. In 2008 I was awarded an early career grant from the Arts & Humanities Research Council for research into representations of space in Herodotus’ History utilising the latest information technology. Project HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) will use a combination of methods (including a spatial database, mashup maps and network analysis) to capture the ‘deep’ topological structures of Herodotus’ text, extending beyond the usual two-dimensional Cartesian maps of the ancient world. More about this project, including initial results, can be found by going to the following link after July 2009: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/
I was awarded a special teaching prize while supervising for Pembroke, Cambridge, and whilst at Christ Church, Oxford I was awarded teaching excellence awards by the University of Oxford on two consecutive years (2006 and 2007).
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