Here's a current list of our PhD students and their research topics
The Maiden Song in Greek Literature.
Black Feminist Theory in Classical Reception: Intersectional Readings of First Century BCE and CE Latin Poetry.
Differentiation of point of view on female characters in Roman Comedy.
Jonathan Barnes
Ovid in the Anthropocene: The ‘green’ reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in 21st-century literature and culture.
Alice Bolland
The modern reception of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
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.
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).
Greek nominal compounding.
Rachel Collier
Studies in the language of Lucian: a cognitive and sociolinguistic approach.
Chiara D’Agostino
Literary (Homeric) and documentary texts from Oxyrhynchus (related to educational practice).
The sack of Babylon by the Hittites.
Plastic Plato: physical and verbal metaphor in Platonic thought
The receptions of Ancient Greek masculinities and sexualities in 21st century popular culture.
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
Pythagoreanism and early Greek Philosophy.
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
A Thread of One's Own: Phenomenology, Pluralism, and the Subversion of Classics in Novelistic Reworkings of Homer by Women in the Twenty-First Century
Voice and identity in the Imperial Greek novels (co-supervision with KCL).
Jennifer Moore
An Edition of Unpublished Greek Documentary Papyri from Oxyrhynchus
Olga Nikonenko
Roman historiography on Egypt.
The female-centredness of Sappho’s synaesthesia.
Magali Perrault
The intertexts and contexts of the representations of Salome at the cinema.
The significance of ‘Family’ in Jean Giraudoux’s and Hermann Broch’s receptions of the Homeric and Virgilian epics.
Early Greek and Hittite legal language.
Four Collections of Latin Poetry by Women From the 17th Century.
Authorship and Narrative Design in Renaissance Latin Letter Collections 1470-1520.
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.
Brother-sister relations: Representations of gender dynamics and kinship in Latin literature under the Julio-Claudian and Flavian dynasties.
Dionysus and regeneration in ancient literature.
Euripides' narrative technique.
Amalia Wickstead
Collections of casts from antiquity in India during the colonial period,
W.H. Auden and antiquity.
Jill Woodberry
Reception of Horace in England 1630-70 (in English and Neo-Latin) (co-supervision with KCL).
The role of Jesuit missionary such as Matteo Ricci in the transmission of Western classics in the late 16th and early 17th century China.
Food, divinity and mortality in early Greek literature.