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An Edition of Unpublished Greek Documentary Papyri from Oxyrhynchus.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An edition of selected unpublished papyri from Oxyrhynchus.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.