Graduate Students

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.

Religion and politics in Achaemenid-Greek relations.

The modern reception of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.

The outrageous violence of Seneca’s letters and tragedies.

Love in Mesopotamia: a study of Sumerian and Akkadian love texts.

Hereditary Guilt and Cycles of Violence within Statius’ Thebaid and Aeschylus’ Oresteia.

Roman power in Hollywood film.

Linguistic variation and change in the Ancient Greek lexicon.

Greek nominal compounding.

Studies in the language of Lucian: a cognitive and sociolinguistic approach.

Literary (Homeric) and documentary texts from Oxyrhynchus (related to educational practice).

Pietro Gaetano’s Oratio de origine et dignitate musices  (co-supervision with the Warburg Institute).

Plastic Plato: physical and verbal metaphor in Platonic thought

The receptions of Ancient Greek masculinities and sexualities in 21st century popular culture.

To what extent did Theocritus’ Idylls promote the interests of the early Ptolemies through depictions of myth, ritual and song?

Determining determinatives: the development and use of classifiers in Hittite texts and scribal culture

Pythagoreanism and early Greek Philosophy.

Religious practice and belief in Roman and Byzantine Egypt: An edition of papyri from Oxyrhynchus.

Cicero and the Scottish enlightenment.

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

Ancient ambiguities and the modern conceptualisation of the self in late 19th and early 20th century thought.

Voice and identity in the Imperial Greek novels  (co-supervision with KCL).

An Edition of Unpublished Greek Documentary Papyri from Oxyrhynchus

The female-centredness of Sappho’s synaesthesia.

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.

How to say Yes in Latin: A Pragmatic Analysis of Positive Response Strategies in Roman Comedy

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).

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.

Collections of casts from antiquity in India during the colonial period,

W.H. Auden and antiquity.

Reception of Horace in England 1630-70 (in English and Neo-Latin)  (co-supervision with KCL).

Food, divinity and mortality in early Greek literature.