UCL Department of Greek and Latin

Peter Agocs (from September 2012)
Greek lyric song, especially Pindar and Bacchylides; genre in ancient literature; narrative in Greek lyric; collective memory.

Jenny Bryan
Ancient philosophy, especially Plato and the Presocratics.

Chris Carey
Greek literature, especially archaic Greek poetry, oratory, drama 

Ruey-Lin Chang
Greek papyrology and Egypt; Greek palaeography and ancient books; law and Greek education

Stephen Colvin
Greek language, dialect and literature; Mycenaean Greek; historical linguistics and sociolinguistics

Nikolaos Gonis
Documentary and literary papyrology; Egypt from Augustus to the Abbasids; later Greek poetry; early Christian literature

Rosie Harman
Greek historiography and ethnography; identity; the politics of representation.

Matthew Hiscock
The literature and culture of the classical period; Classical scholarship in the second half of the eighteenth century (particularly the career of Gilbert Wakefield)

Miriam Leonard
Greek literature and philosophy; reception; history of modern European thought; critical theory

Fiachra Mac Góráin
Augustan poetry, especially Virgil; Virgilian exegesis; Dionysus in Latin poetry; intertextuality; the reception of Virgil in Ireland

Gesine Manuwald
Roman drama; Roman epic; Cicero’s speeches; reception studies, esp. Neo-Latin

Matthew Robinson
Ovid; Eratosthenes catasterism texts

Laura Swift
Greek drama; choral song; Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poetry; early Greek epic

Maria Wyke [Head of Department]
Latin literature, especially Roman love poetry; ancient gender and sexuality;
reception studies, especially Julius Caesar, Rome on film, classics and popular culture.

Emmanuela Bakola 
Greek drama; popular receptions of poetry in antiquity; literary criticism in antiquity; genre theory; drama, ritual and religion; Greek literary papyri

Marigold Norbye
Medieval manuscripts; medieval chronicles; the history of history writing; medieval libraries; the transmission of ancient history

Marguerite Hirt
Greek Papyri

Walter Cockle [Honorary Research Fellow]
Greek and Latin papyri and ostraca from Roman Egypt 

Alan Griffiths [Senior Honorary Research Fellow]
Greek poetry and mythology; Herodotos 

Susan Lupack [Honorary Research Fellow]

Herwig Maehler [Emeritus Professor]
Literary and documentary papyri; Ptolemaic Egypt; Homer; Greek lyric

Antony Makrinos [Post-doctoral research fellow]
Homer; Scholarship in Byzantium (esp. reception of the Homeric text with emphasis on allegorical interpretation); Modern reception

Margaret Mountford [Honorary Research Fellow]
Greek and Latin papyri and ostraca from Roman Egypt

Gerard O'Daly [Emeritus Professor]
Late Latin literature; ancient and early Christian philosophy

Chiara Thumiger [Honorary Research Fellow]
Greek tragedy; the concepts of mind and the views of madness in ancient literatures

Vasiliki Zali [Honorary Research Fellow]
Greek literature; Thucydides

Mary Moloney
Departmental Administrator

Joanna Fryer
Administrative Officer