Staff
R. Anderson | E. Buckley | V. Campbell | J. Coderch | J. Coulston | E. Gee | S. Halliwell | J. Harries | J. Hesk | A. Koenig | J. Koenig | M. Lavan | S. Lewis | A.Long | N. Manioti | S. Newington | F. Racine | R. Rees | C. Smith | R. Sweetman | N. Wiater | G. Woolf.
Please feel free to contact members of staff with specific queries. General enquiries should be directed to the School Secretary.
Administrative & support staff
Emeritus Professors | Honorary staff | Associates
Director of Teaching, Exams Officer, Subhonours Adviser
Phone: 01334 462619
Room: C29
Greek religion, ritual and magic; anthropological theories of religion and the lived experience of religion and magic in the ancient world.
Subhonours Adviser, CL Programme Convener
Phone: 01334 462622
Room: C25
Latin literature of the early imperial era, esp. post-Virgilian epic and drama; the reception of Virgil and Ovid in the Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern periods.
Phone: 01334 462603
Room: S17
Pompeii, prosopography and social network analysis, volcanoes and earth science in antiquity, Vitruvius and Roman architecture, funerary customs, regulation of urban space and land use, gardens, the city of Rome, and graffiti.
Ancient History Programme Convener
Phone: 01334 462612
Room: S14
Archaeology of the Roman empire, Roman art, the City of Rome, ancient warfare, Roman military equipment, Roman army, Asiatic steppe nomad cultures
On research leave 2011-13
Phone: 01334 462621
Room: S12
Latin Literature; Ancient Astronomy; Reception of ancient astronomy and literature in the Renaissance
Head of School
Phone: 01334 462617
Room: S9
Greek literature, especially tragedy and comedy; Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle; Greek poetics and aesthetics; the Classical Tradition, especially theories of poetry and art.
Phone: 01334 462607
Room: S18
History of the Later Roman Empire, especially Roman Gaul; Roman legal culture and society; Church Historians and the Rise of Christianity
Director of Postgraduate Studies, Impact Officer
Phone: 01334 462620
Room: S2
Greek literature and culture, esp. Homer, tragedy, comedy, oratory and rhetorical theory, the Sophists, Athenian democracy and ideology, ancient political theory, ancient and modern literary theory.
On research leave
Phone: 01334 462607
Room: S18
Latin literature, especially 1st C. AD; imperial politics (Augustus to Trajan); Latin technical and scientific writing.
Deputy Head of School, Director of Research, Director of LOGOS
Phone: 01334 462618
Room: S16
Greek and Roman literature and culture, especially Greek literature of the imperial period; ancient athletics
Study abroad
Phone: 01334 462610
Room: C22
Roman society and culture, especially imperialism, slavery and patronage; Roman historiography; the theory and practice of cultural history.
On research leave (sem 2)
Phone: 01334 462605
Room: S15
Greek political and social history, especially tyranny, iconography and women's history, and communications.
Greek Programme Convener
Phone: 01334 461607
Room: S13
Greek and Roman philosophy, particularly Plato, Stoicism and ancient political thought
Phone: 01334 462613
Room: C31
Latin epic (Virgil, Ovid, Valerius Flaccus, Statius); Roman women; Roman family; Greek and Roman myth.
Subhonours Co-ordinator
Phone: 01334 462616
Room: C32
Cultural and intellectual history of the Roman and Byzantine empires; ancient and medieval travel and geography; history of childhood and education.
Latin Programme Convener, MLitt Programme Convener
Phone: 01334 462685
Room: S1
Latin panegyric, Virgil, Catullus, the history and culture of late antiquity; the reception of Latin literature in modern English verse; praise discourse in Roman society.
On secondment as Director of the British School at Rome, 2009-14
Archaic Greek and Italian history and archaeology, esp. issues of state formation and ritual; late Roman Republic; Greek & Roman historiography, esp. fragmentary historians; growth of Roman imperialism.
Admissions Officer, Honours adviser
Greek and Roman Archaeology, especially archaeology of Roman & Late Antique Crete, Late Antique Peloponnese (especially Sparta), archaeology of Late Antique religion and Roman provinces.
Phone: 01334 462625
Room: S19
Late Hellenistic & early Imperial Greek literature & culture; Greek intellectual culture & cultural identity; modern theoretical approaches & ancient literature.
On research leave 2009-13
Cultural history of the Roman Empire; ancient economic and social history; ancient literacy; Roman provincial archaeology; Roman Gaul. Ancient Science, Provincial Cults.
Tutors
Part-time tutor
Although my teaching centres on Greek and Roman culture / history, my research area includes Near Eastern Studies. I am currently researching cross-cultural influences between the Near East and Greece pre 8th century BCE.
Administrative & support staff
Mrs Margaret Goudie
Secretary to Senior Staff; Postgraduate Applications, Publicity, Conference arrangements, FOI, Data Protection; available mornings only
Phone: 01334 462608
Room: S5
Mrs Irene Paulton
School secretary, responsible for administration of the school
Phone: 01334 462600
Room: S8
Mrs Carol Wright
Assistant Secretary, including disabilities, health and safety and library. Works term time only.
Phone: 01334 462608
Room: S5
Emeritus Professors
Earlier and Classical Latin language and literature, and the interaction of Greek and Roman (and other) cultures in the Hellenistic period roughly from Alexander to the Antonines; Greek and Roman science and mathematics, focusing on the third century B. C. (Eratosthenes, Archimedes, Euclid, Apollonius), Ptolemy, and the transmission of their ideas and lore.
Latin language and literature, particularly the younger Seneca, and Latin philosophical, scientific and technical writing; Roman intellectual life, especially Roman ideas about the natural world; the development of the language and style of Latin prose in the early empire.
Honorary staff
Dr Michel M Austin
Greek Social and Economic History; the History of the Hellenistic world
Prof. Elizabeth M Craik
Greek Tragedy; Religion and Myth; Regional and Social History of Greece; Medicine.
Tiberius Claudius;
Reception : Robert Graves and cultural history; The Beat Generation writers.
Rhetoric, the voice and dysfluency; ancient medicine.
Associates
Roman arms and armour; Roman military archaeology; Roman roads; Corbridge; Vegetius; Archaeological publishing; Electronic publishing technology.
Prof. Matthew Dickie
Greek and Roman literature and culture; Greek and Roman Magic
Athenian Epigraphy;
Excavation of Torone by the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens.
