People 

Meet the academic, teaching, and professional services staff within the School of Classics.

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Dr Kate Cook

Associate Lecturer in Classics

Dr Jon Hesk

Deputy Head of School

Reader

Homeric epic; Greek tragedy and comedy; Thucydides; Athenian oratory and Greek rhetorical theory; ancient democracy and its modern legacy; the application of political science and psychology to the texts and culture of Athenian democracy; the influence of ancient drama on contemporary British theatre.

Dr Anna Kelley

Lecturer in Ancient History

Dr Rhyne King

Lecturer in Ancient History

Dr Alice König

Senior Lecturer

Latin literature, Roman Empire, Nerva/Trajan/Hadrian, intertextuality, literary interactions, cross-cultural interactions, technical writing, history of science, battle narratives, visualising war.

Prof Jason König

Professor

Greek literature and culture of the Roman empire; late Hellenistic, early Christian and late antique literature; place, landscape and environment in ancient and modern culture; ancient encyclopaedic, scientific and miscellanistic writing; the literature and culture of the symposium; ancient athletics.

Prof Myles Lavan

Director of Research

Professor

Political, social and cultural history of the Roman empire; imperialism; slavery; citizenship; quantitative methods

Dr Carlos Machado

Senior Lecturer

Rome and Italy; late antiquity; cities and civic life; Latin epigraphy; urban space.

Dr Brian Martens

Lecturer in Archaeology & Ancient History

Dr Ruben Post

Director of Impact

Lecturer in Ancient History

Prof Roger Rees

Head of the School of Classics

Professor

Prof Rebecca Sweetman

Professor

On Secondment: Director of the British School of Athens

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Mr Douglas Forsyth

Visiting Scholar

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Dr Manlio Fossati

Visiting Scholar

MG

Ms Maximiliane Gindele

Visiting Scholar

Dr Nikoletta Manioti

Visiting Scholar

Sisters; Epic; Roman women; Myth; Representation of space in literature

CM

Dr Colin McLaren

Visiting Scholar

SO

Mr Samuel Oer de Almeida

Visiting Scholar

GR

Mr Giuseppe Rallo

Visiting Scholar

YT

Ms Yan Tang

Visiting Scholar

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Mrs Leanne Bell

School Coordinator

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Mrs Lindsey Leven-Pryce

Senior Teaching Administrator

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Ms Denise Martin

Senior Teaching Administrator

Mrs Fiona Swift

Mrs Fiona Swift

Research and Events Administrator