Dr Alisdair Gibson
Honorary Research Fellow
Research Interests
Tiberius Claudius;
Reception : Robert Graves and cultural history; The Beat Generation writers.
Rhetoric, the voice and dysfluency; ancient medicine.
Academic Career
1996-2000 MA General Arts (Edinburgh)
2000-2001 MSc (Research) in Ancient History (Edinburgh)
2001-2005 PhD in Classics (Edinburgh)
Current research projects
"Go! Classics Go! The Beat Generation, the avant garde and the roots of counterculture". Joint research workshops with University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2012.
Editing collections:
“Classics and Robert Graves: a relationship in literature, translation and adaptation”.
"The Julio-Claudian Succession: Reality and Perception of the Augustan Model (Mnemosyne Supplements)" edited and introduction by A.G.G. Gibson
Publications
- “The physiology and therapy of broken speech in Galen and Caelius Aurelianus”, Proceedings of the 40th Congress of the International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM), 26-30 August 2006, ISHM Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Budapest, 2006, (2) pp. 841-844.
- Review: Tacitus Annals, trans A.J. Woodman, 2004, New York, Hackett, in Journal of Classics Teaching no.6, Sept. 2005 p. 28.
- Review: R. Seager, Tiberius², 2005, Oxford, Blackwell, in Journal of Classics Teaching no.6 Sept. 2005, p.34.