Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis

Director of Teaching

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2609

Email

aipd@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

C31

Location

Craigard

 

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 kept her hand in teaching, working part-time at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and at King’s College London (2012-2016). 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 Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the The British Academy (2021-2022). 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 through travel and collecting practices, in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

PhD supervision

• Annabel Crawshaw-Brown
• Carola Scisci
• Justin Lorenzo Biggi
• Isabella Green
• Alice Remmington

Selected publications

• Drawing the Greek Vase

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

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• A granular approach to Ioannis Makriyannis (1797-1864) and antiquities: replication, domesticity and multivalence

  Petsalis-Diomidis, A., 9 Dec 2024, Travel and classical antiquities in nineteenth-century Ottoman Greece: exploring marginalised perspectives. Petsalis-Diomidis, A. (ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 22-37 16 p. (British School at Athens – Modern Greek and Byzantine studies; vol. 12).

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

• Introduction: foregrounding the marginal

  Petsalis-Diomidis, A., 9 Dec 2024, Travel and classical antiquities in nineteenth-century Ottoman Greece: exploring marginalised perspectives. Petsalis-Diomidis, A. (ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 1-21 21 p. (British School at Athens – Modern Greek and Byzantine studies; vol. 12).

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

• Through 'the eye of an experienced traveller': Robert Wilson (1787–1871) in Ottoman and revolutionary Greece

  Petsalis-Diomidis, A., 31 Jul 2024, The Greek revolution of 1821: European contexts, Scottish connections. Beaton, R. & Gaul, N. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 209-249 41 p. (Edinburgh Leventis studies; vol. 12).

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

• Travel and classical antiquities in nineteenth-century Ottoman Greece: exploring marginalised perspectives

  Petsalis-Diomidis, A. (Editor), 9 Dec 2024, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. (British School at Athens – Modern Greek and Byzantine studies; vol. 12)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Drawing the Greek vase

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

  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

 

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