Graduate Students

The Maiden Song in Greek Literature.

Black Feminist Theory in Classical Reception: Intersectional Readings of First Century BCE and CE Latin Poetry.

Differentiation of point of view on female characters in Roman Comedy.

Ovid’s trees and the 21^st-century arboreal imaginary

The modern reception of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.

Love in Mesopotamia: a study of Sumerian and Akkadian love texts.

Hereditary Guilt and Cycles of Violence within Statius’ Thebaid and Aeschylus’ Oresteia.

Roman power in Hollywood film.

20th century Virgilian reception (particularly C. Day Lewis’ translations of the Georgics and Aeneid and their political context).

Greek nominal compounding.

Studies in the language of Lucian: a cognitive and sociolinguistic approach.

Literary (Homeric) and documentary texts from Oxyrhynchus (related to educational practice).

The sack of Babylon by the Hittites.

Plastic Plato: physical and verbal metaphor in Platonic thought

The receptions of Ancient Greek masculinities and sexualities in 21st century popular culture.

To what extent did Theocritus’ Idylls promote the interests of the early Ptolemies through depictions of myth, ritual and song?

Determining determinatives: the development and use of classifiers in Hittite texts and scribal culture

Pythagoreanism and early Greek Philosophy.

Religious practice and belief in Roman and Byzantine Egypt: An edition of papyri from Oxyrhynchus.

Cicero and the Scottish enlightenment.

A Thread of One's Own: Phenomenology, Pluralism, and the Subversion of Classics in Novelistic Reworkings of Homer by Women in the Twenty-First Century

Voice and identity in the Imperial Greek novels  (co-supervision with KCL).

An Edition of Unpublished Greek Documentary Papyri from Oxyrhynchus

Roman historiography on Egypt.

The female-centredness of Sappho’s synaesthesia.

The intertexts and contexts of the representations of Salome at the cinema.

The significance of ‘Family’ in Jean Giraudoux’s and Hermann Broch’s receptions of the Homeric and Virgilian epics.

Four Collections of Latin Poetry by Women From the 17th Century.

Authorship and Narrative Design in Renaissance Latin Letter Collections 1470-1520.

Classical reception in musical theatre (co-supervision with the Central School of Speech and Drama).

Studies in Greek documentary papyri

The first time as tragedy, the second as horror: generic progression and the centrality of gender as a exploratory device within the genres.

Brother-sister relations: Representations of gender dynamics and kinship in Latin literature under the Julio-Claudian and Flavian dynasties.

Dionysus and regeneration in ancient literature.

Euripides' narrative technique.

Collections of casts from antiquity in India during the colonial period,

W.H. Auden and antiquity.

Reception of Horace in England 1630-70 (in English and Neo-Latin)  (co-supervision with KCL).

The role of Jesuit missionary such as Matteo Ricci in the transmission of Western classics in the late 16th and early 17th century China.

Food, divinity and mortality in early Greek literature.