Graduate Students
UCL Department of Greek and Latin
Here's a current list of our PhD students and their research topics
Nathaniel Agnew
The Maiden Song in Greek Literature.
Antonia Aluko
Black Feminist Theory in Classical Reception: Intersectional Readings of First Century BCE and CE Latin Poetry.
Anna Andreopoulou
Differentiation of point of view on female characters in Roman Comedy.
Jonathan Barnes
Ovid’s trees and the 21st-century arboreal imaginary.
Alice Bolland
The modern reception of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia.
Daniele Borkowski
Love in Mesopotamia: a study of Sumerian and Akkadian love texts.
Kit Bowhay
Hereditary Guilt and Cycles of Violence within Statius’ Thebaid and Aeschylus’ Oresteia.
Amanda Bristow
Roman power in Hollywood film.
Amaryllis Campbell
20th century Virgilian reception (particularly C. Day Lewis’ translations of the Georgics and Aeneid and their political context).
Baihui Cheng
Greek nominal compounding.
Chiara D’Agostino
Literary (Homeric) and documentary texts from Oxyrhynchus (related to educational practice).
Rebecca Keary Dartnall
The sack of Babylon by the Hittites.
Magda Filliou Vasilescu
Plastic Plato: physical and verbal metaphor in Platonic thought
Anne Hardy
To what extent did Theocritus’ Idylls promote the interests of the early Ptolemies through depictions of myth, ritual and song?
Eleanor Home
Determining determinatives: the development and use of classifiers in Hittite texts and scribal culture
Eleftheria Katsoni
Religious practice and belief in Roman and Byzantine Egypt: An edition of papyri from Oxyrhynchus.
Patricia Lobanow Rostovsky
Cicero and the Scottish enlightenment.
Faye Mather
The reception of antiquity in psychoanalysis, specifically the theories, practices, and analytic spaces of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and Melanie Klein, and in modern psychotherapy.
Jennifer Moore
An Edition of Unpublished Greek Documentary Papyri from Oxyrhynchus.
Olga Nikonenko
Imperial encounters: gendered responses to Roman empire in British museums.
İrem Şükran Nogay
Royal diseases in the Hittite kingdom.
Magali Perrault
The intertexts and contexts of the representations of Salome at the cinema.
Soultana Plakida
An edition of selected unpublished papyri from Oxyrhynchus.
Ffion Smith
Classical reception in musical theatre (co-supervision with the Central School of Speech and Drama).
Anna Szajbély
Studies in Greek documentary papyri
Chloe Tye
The first time as tragedy, the second as horror: generic progression and the centrality of gender as a exploratory device within the genres.
Carmen Van der Aa
Brother-sister relations: Representations of gender dynamics and kinship in Latin literature under the Julio-Claudian and Flavian dynasties.
Amalia Wickstead
Collections of casts from antiquity in India during the colonial period.
Daniele Xhani
Stage and Street: insults and obscenities in Roman comic theatre and Pompeian graffiti.
Peter Xiao
The role of Jesuit missionaries such as Matteo Ricci in the transmission of Western classics in the late 16th and early 17th century China.
- See also the list of recently completed PhD theses