UCL Department of Greek & Latin

Peter Agocs
Greek lyric song, especially Pindar and Bacchylides; genre in ancient literature; narrative in Greek lyric; collective memory.

Rosa Andújar
Greek literature, especially tragedy, Lucian, and the ancient novel; reception of Greek drama.

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.

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.

Antony Makrinos
Homer; scholarship in Byzantium (esp. reception of the Homeric text with emphasis on allegorical interpretation); modern receptions.

Gesine Manuwald [Head of Department]
Roman drama; Roman epic; Cicero’s speeches; reception studies, esp. Neo-Latin

Mairéad McAuley
Early imperial Roman literature, especially Neronian and Flavian, tragedy and epic; gender and genre in Latin poetry.

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

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

Marguerite Hirt
Greek Papyri

Professors emeriti and Senior Research Fellows (honorary)

Alan Griffiths
Greek poetry and mythology; Herodotos

Herwig Maehler
Literary and documentary papyri; Ptolemaic Egypt; Homer; Greek lyric

Gerard O'Daly
Late Latin literature; ancient and early Christian philosophy

Honorary Research Fellows

Anastasia Bakogianni 

Emmanuela Bakola

Giulia Biffis

Walter Cockle
Greek and Latin papyri and ostraca from Roman Egypt 

Brenda Griffith-Williams

Theodora Hadjimichael

Maria Kanellou

Margaret Mountford
Greek and Latin papyri and ostraca from Roman Egypt

Victoria Rimell
Augustan and Imperial Latin literature

Akrivi Taousiani

Chiara Thumiger
Greek tragedy; the concepts of mind and the views of madness in ancient literatures

Naoko Yamagata

Vasiliki Zali
Greek literature; Thucydides

Mary Moloney
Departmental Administrator

Val Schofield (from 10 Dec. 2012)
Administrative Officer