Dr Emma Buckley
Lecturer in Latin
Subhonours Adviser, CL Programme Convener
Phone: 01334 462622
Room: C25
Research Interests
Latin literature of the early imperial era, especially post-Virgilian epic and drama; the reception of Virgil and Ovid in the medieval, Renaissance and early modern periods.
Publications
Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica: the first Flavian Epic
Buckley, E. L.
2014
In:
The Companion to Latin Epic, 14-96 CE .
Fratantuano, L. (ed.).
Wiley-Blackwell
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Nero insitiuus
: constructing Neronian identity in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia
Buckley, E. L.
Sep-2012
In:
The Julio-Claudian Succession: Reality and Perception of the 'Augustan Model'.
Gibson, A. G. G. (ed.). Leiden:
Brill
,
Vol. 349
, (Mnemosyne Supplements).
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
'Astyanax', 'Maffeo Vegio'
Buckley, E. L.
23-Dec-2011
In:
Virgil Encyclopedia.
Ziolkowski, J. & Thomas, R. (eds.).
Wiley-Blackwell
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
'Live false Aeneas!' Marlowe's
Dido, Queen of Carthage
and the limits of translation
Buckley, E. L.
2011
In :
Classical Receptions Journal
.
3
,
2
,
p. 129-147.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Ending the 'Aeneid'? Closure and Continuation in Maffeo Vegio's 'Supplementum'
Buckley, E. L.
Jan-2006
In :
Vergilius
.
52
,
1
,
p. 111-140.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Dialogando con il passato.: Permanenze e innovazioni nella cultura latina di età flavia
Buckley, E. L.
2011
In :
Classical Review
.
61
,
2
,
p. 633.
633 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Si quid mea carmina possunt
... Reflections on the Virgilian Tradition: J. M. Ziolkowski and M. C. J. Putnam (Eds), The Virgilian Tradition. The First Fifteen Hundred Years. C. Kallendorf, The Virgilian Tradition. Book History and the History of Reading in Early Modern Europe. C. Kallendorf, The Other Virgil. ‘Pessimistic’ Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture.
Buckley, E. L.
& Houghton, L. B. T.
2009
In :
Journal of Roman Studies
.
99
,
p. 207-218.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Francois Spaltenstein (ed.) Commentaire des Argonautica de Valérius Flaccus (livres 3, 4 et 5); Commentaire des Argonautica de Valérius Flaccus (livres 6, 7 et 8). Collection Latomus, vols.281-282 (2004-5). Bruxelles.
Buckley, E. L.
2008
In :
Gnomon. Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft.
80
,
p. 563-564.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Marco Fucecchi,
Una Guerra in Colchide. Valerio Flacco,
Argonautiche
6,1-426. Introduzione, traduzione e commento.
Buckley, E. L.
2008
In :
Classical Review
.
58
,
1
,
p. 148-150.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Andrew Laird,
The Epic of America: an introduction to Rafael Landívar and the
Rusticatio Mexicana
. London, Duckworth 2006.
Buckley, E. L.
2007
In :
Journal of Roman Studies
.
97
,
p. 329-331.
3 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Anna Cox Brinton,
Maphaeus Vegius and his thirteenth book of the
Aeneid. London, Duckworth, 2002.
Buckley, E. L.
Feb-2003
In :
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
.
2003.02.02
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Latin Language Teaching and the Student Experience
Konig, A. R.
,
Buckley, E. L.
& Woodcock Kroble, M. L.
1-Oct-2012
Research output
:
Non-textual form
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Web publication/site
For further information on publications, please view my profile on the university's research portal.
Current research projects
I am currently working on a monograph about the Argonautica of the Flavian epicist Valerius Flaccus.
Teaching
Teaching Areas
Subhonours: a range of Latin literature and language including Catullus, Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, Suetonius.
Honours: Greek and Latin epic; Senecan Tragedy; the Mediaeval, Renaissance and contemporary reception of Virgil.
Honours Modules
- CL4447: ‘Greek and Roman Epic’ (Classical Studies Module)
- CL4449: ‘After Virgil. The Aeneid and its Reception’ (Classical Studies Module)
- LT4210: Latin Didactic Poetry (Virgil’s Georgics; Latin module)
- LT4***: Senecan Tragedy (Latin Module)
Academic Career
Education
- B.A. Hons in Classics – New Hall, University of Cambridge (1998-2001)
- M.Phil. in Classics – Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (2001-2002)
- Ph.D. in Classics – Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (2002-2006)
Employment
September 2006 – current: Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies, School of Classics, University of St Andrews
