Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis

Director of Teaching

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2609

Email

aipd@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis grew up in Greece and read Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BA 1995). She went on to study Art History (Byzantine and Classical) at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (MA 1996 and PhD 2001). She began her career teaching at University College Dublin (2001–2002), followed by a Special Leverhulme Research Fellowship at the University of Nottingham (2002-2005), where she had deferred a permanent lectureship. Between 2005 and 2012 she took a career break to bring up her three children. During this time she worked part time as a Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (2005–2017). From 2012–2016 she held a Lectureship in Classical Greek Art at King’s College London in addition to her position at Corpus Christi College. In 2017 she resumed full time work and joined the School of Classics at St Andrews. Her research has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust (2002-2005), the Loeb Classical Library Foundation (2020-2021) the The British Academy (2021-2022), and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. She is co-founder of the Inclusive Classics Initiative, a partner organisation of the Institute of Classical Studies. She was shortlisted in The Times Higher Education 2021 Teaching Awards as ‘most innovative teacher of the year’, she received a University of St Andrews Teaching Excellence Award in 2020 and a McCall MacBain Foundation Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Excellence Award in 2019. She is currently Director of Teaching in the School of Classics.

Research areas

Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis is an art historian working on Classical material culture in the ancient Greek world, and on its reception in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is particularly interested in searching out marginalised, non-elite voices, and in exploring intimate, small scale encounters with objects within the natural or built landscape. There are two main strands in her research: first, religion, travel and the body in the Greek world of the Hellenistic and Roman periods and, second, the reception of Classical material culture, especially ceramics, in Europe c.1760-1830.

PhD supervision

• Justin Lorenzo Biggi
• Annabel Crawshaw-Brown
• Justin Lorenzo Biggi

Selected publications

• Drawing the Greek vase

  Meyer, C. (ed.) & Petsalis-Diomidis, A. (ed.), 9 Jun 2023, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 315 p. (Visual conversations in art and archaeology)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Drawing the Greek Vase

  Petsalis-Diomidis, A. & Meyer, C., 1 Jan 2023, British Academy (Oxford University Press). 315 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Inclusive classics and pedagogy: teachers, academics, and students in conversation

  Goff, B. & Petsalis-Diomidis, A., 12 Apr 2023, Diversity and the study of antiquity in higher education: perspectives from North America and Europe. McHardy, F. & Libatique, D. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 121-130 10 p. (Classics in and out of the academy: classical pedagogy in the twenty-first century).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Introduction

  Petsalis-Diomidis, A., 9 Jun 2023, Drawing the Greek vase. Meyer, C. & Petsalis-Diomidis, A. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 1-23 23 p. (Visual conversations in art and archaeology).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• The graphic medium and artistic style: Thomas Hope (1769-1831) and two-dimensional encounters with Greek vases

  Petsalis-Diomidis, A., 9 Jun 2023, Drawing the Greek vase. Meyer, C. & Petsalis-Diomidis, A. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 84-111 28 p. (Visual conversations in art and archaeology).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Inclusive Classics Initiative. Report on ‘Towards a More Inclusive Classics II’ International Workshop organised by Professor Barbara Goff and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, 1-2 July 2021

  Petsalis-Diomidis, A., Goff, B., Holmes-Henderson, A. & Messenger, J., 15 Dec 2021, CUCD Bulletin, 50, p. 1-6.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Inclusive Classics Initiative. Report on 'Towards a More Inclusive Classics' Conference 25-26 June 2020

  Barbara Goff, 21 Sept 2020, In: Bulletin of the Council of University Classics Departments. 49

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Introduction

  Petsalis-Diomidis, A., 2020, In: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. 63, 1, p. 8-14 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

• Pottery workers, 'the ladies', and 'the middling class of people': production and marketing of 'Etruscan and Grecian vases' at Wedgwood c.1760-1820

  Petsalis-Diomidis, A., 1 Sept 2020, In: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. 63, 1, p. 34-53 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The classical vase transformed: consumption, reproduction, and class in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain

  Petsalis-Diomidis, A. (ed.) & Hall, E. (ed.), 1 Sept 2020, In: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. 63, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

 

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