Classical Reception Studies Network

CRSN individual members (4)

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Dr Sonya Nevin: sonya.nevin@roehampton.ac.uk Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton Research interests: The Greco-Roman world in 19th-century literature (especially in the fiction of Charlotte Bronte) and in film and science fiction (especially representations of ancient warfare) and the Titans in Romantic thought.

Alana Newman, PhD student: alana.n.newman@gmail.com

Department of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh

Research interests: Using film theory to interpret depictions of women in Hellenistic art.

Emma Nicholson, PhD student: e.nicholson@newcastle.ac.uk School of History, Newcastle University Research interests: Reception in antiquity.

Dr Nick Ollivere: nicholas.ollivere@humanities.ox.ac.uk Humanities Division, University of Oxford Reception interests: Reception of concepts of the self from antiquity to the present day, in poetry and other literature.

Antonis K. Petrides: apetrides@ouc.ac.cy School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Open University of Cyprus. Research interests: Greek and Roman theatre and its modern reception (mainly in Greece and Cyprus)

Dr Simon Perris: simon.perris@vuw.ac.nz Classics Programme, Victoria University of Wellington Research interests: Greek tragedy; performance reception; literary reception, especially in Aotearoa New Zealand; translation and translation studies.

Amanda Potter: amandapotter@caramanda.co.uk Department of Classical Studies, The Open University Research interests: Classics on film and television, viewer reception.

Richard Potter, PhD student: rprichardpotter@gmail.com

Department of Classics, Royal Holloway University of London

Research interests: The reception of the Greek tragic chorus in selected British and American television productions of the late twentieth century.

Dr David Pritchard: d.pritchard@uq.edu.au

School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of Queensland

Research interests: The cultural and social history of classical Athens, participation in its democracy, the position of Attic women, the ancient Olympics, Greek sport and the armed forces of Athens during its age of empire.

Dr Valentina Prosperi: prosperiv@uniss.it

Dipartimento di Storia, Scienze dell'uomo e della formazione, Università di Sassari (Italy)

Research interests: Lucretius in Italian Humanism and the Renaissance, Dictys and Dares as historical sources in the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Trojan myth and the influence of its reception on Homer's early modern Nachleben, Dante and the classics, Tasso and the Classics, Dryden, Shakespeare and the reuse of the past.

Elina Pyy: elina.pyy@helsinki.fi Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki. Research interests: Roman imperial poetry, gender studies, history of identities and mentalities.

Dr Tiziana Ragno: tiziana.ragno@unifg.it Department of Humanities, University of Foggia Research interests: Classical reception and musical appropriations of the classics.

Holly Ranger, PhD student:har067@bham.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham Research interests: Classical reception, gender and sexuality, feminist and queer theory, contemporary women's writing and reception as social activism.

Vassiliki Rapti: rapti@fas.harvard.edu Department of Classics, Harvard University Research interests: Modern Greek literature, avant-garde theatre and performance, especially surrealist drama and the poetics of play and games.

Francesca Richards: f.m.richards@durham.ac.uk Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham Research interests: Classics and children's literature, in particular the reception of Homer's Odyssey.

Laura Rietveld: l.c.j.dehaasrietveld@gmail.com Independent scholar (The Netherlands)

Research interests: Reception of classical mythology (Orpheus, Hercules) in the Italian Renaissance (literature, visual arts, music); reception of antiquity in the works of Petrarch (14th century)

Enrique Riobo, PG student: enrique.riobo@gmail.com Centro de estudios culturales latinoamericanos, Universidad de Chile Research interests: The classical tradition in school textbooks and education in Chile and in modernist Latin American literature.

Dr Emilia Di Rocco: emilia.dirocco@uniroma1.it

Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies, Sapienza University of Rome Research interests: The reception of ancient myth in modern literature, medieval literature, literature and the Bible.

Dr Chiara Rolli: chiara.rolli@unipr.it Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Parma, Italy Research interests: The relationship between classics, post-colonial literatures and twentieth-century British literature.

Raf Van Rooy, PhD candidate: raf.vanrooy@kuleuven.be Department of French, Italian and Comparative Linguistics, University of Leuven Research interests: History of words and ideas, Greek in Early Modern times and historical-comparative linguistics.

J Alison Rosenblitt: alison.rosenblitt@classics.ox.ac.uk Department of Classics, Oxford Research interests: E.E. Cummings; modernism; Roman history and historiography.

Liz Sawyer, PhD student: elizabeth.sawyer@classics.ox.ac.uk Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford Research interests: The reception of Thucydides in 20th and 21st-century US and UK politics, education, rhetoric, and the military; theoretical and political approaches to the classics, esp. history of classics teaching, education, and women.

Madeleine Scherer, PhD student: M.M.C.Scherer@warwick.ac.uk Department of English and Comparative Literature, Warwick University. Research Interests: Mnemonic Refiguration: The Graeco-Roman Underworld in Ireland and the Caribbean

Christopher Martin Schliephake, PhD student: christopher.schliephake@phil.uni-augsburg.de Department of History, Augsburg University Research interests: Cultural history of the ancient world and its reception, history, memory and place, environmental history and literary theory (ecocriticism, new historicism)

Emeritus Professor Gareth Schmeling: gschmel1@jhu.edu Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins University Research interests: Petronius, Apuleius, Historia Apollonii and the Greek novels

Bev Scott, PhD student: beverley_scott1981@hotmail.com Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool Research interests: The reception of the Argonautic myth in science fiction.

Dr Lorna Shaughnessy: lorna.shaughnessy@nuigalway.ie Department of Spanish, National University of Ireland, Galway Research interests: Reception studies in twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American poetry and theatre. Currently researching Latin American versions of Iphigeneia.

Cara Sheldrake: cara.sheldrake@gmail.com Post-doctoral independent researcher Research interests: Uses of Classics in local historiography, esp. Cornish antiquarianism. Classics (esp. Roman Britain) in children's literature.

Clare Shiane, MA student: Shianeclare@hotmail.com

Department of Classical Studies, The Open University

Research interests: Modern depictions of Roman women in the media and in exhibitions.

Wendy Sijnesael, PhD student: haxws@bristol.ac.uk Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol Research interests: Alma-Tadema's engagement with the classics.

Jared Simard, PhD student: jsimard@gc.cuny.edu The Graduate Center, City University of New York Research interests: Reception Studies, classical mythology in post-antique art and digital humanities.

Dr Ewa Skwara: skwara@amu.edu.pl Institute of Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland) Research interests: The legacy of ancient theatre and the ancient world in cinema.

Kalina Slaska-Sapala: kalina.slaska-sapala@ccc.ox.ac.uk

Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford

Research Interests: Greek and Roman epic (Homer, Lucretius, Vergil), Early Modern English literature, esp. John Milton, Polish literature, translation studies.

Tyler Jo Smith: tjs6e@virginia.edu Department of Art and Archaeology, University of Virginia Research interests: Greek Vases and Iconography; ancient religions; dance, drama, performance.

Dr Johan Steenkamp: johan.steenkamp@nwu.ac.za School of Ancient Languages and Textual Studies, North-West University Research interests:

Niels Grotum Sørensen, PhD student: grotum@hum.ku.dk Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen Research interests: Classical reception in 18th century Scandinavia, particularly in the comic poetry of Ludvig Holberg; European mock-heroic poetry and satire.

Dr Zoe Stamatopoulou: zus4@psu.edu Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Penn State Research interests: Ancient reception of poets, didactic poetry and women in antiquity.

Dr Catherine Steel: catherine.steel@glasgow.ac.uk Department of Classics, University of Glasgow Research interests: The reception of Roman political theory.

Geoffrey Stone: stoneg@roehampton.ac.uk Department of Classics, University of Roehampton Research interests: Reception of Greek vases; Sir William Hamilton

Simon Strauss: simonstrauss@gmx.de

The Collaborative Research Centre Transformations of Antiquity, Humboldt University Research interests: 19/20th century German historiography (Mommsen, Friedländer, Marquardt, Gelzer) and especially the usage of the term 'society' to describe social structures in the ancient world.