Classics and Classical Studies

The following members of staff are currently undertaking research into Greek literature:

• Dr Michael Carroll: works on Greek tragedy and poetry, particularly Aeschylus and Pindar. He is particularly interested in metaphor and figurative language, cognitive approaches to literature and culture, Greek religious belief, and ethical and evaluative concepts in archaic and classical Greek thought.
• Dr Jon Hesk: works on Greek literature and culture, especially Homer, tragedy, comedy, Attic oratory and Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and education.
• Professor Stephen Halliwell: one of the world’s leading interpreters of Greek literature with special interests in Greek comedy, especially Aristophanes; Greek tragedy and the theory of tragedy, both ancient and modern; Plato, especially the Republic and Platonic attitudes to poetry and art; Aristotle, especially the Poetics and Rhetoric; Greek literary criticism and aesthetics; classical traditions, especially in the fields of aesthetics and poetry.
• Dr Alex Long: works on Greek and Roman philosophy, with special interests in Plato, political philosophy and the response to Plato in Hellenistic philosophy.
• Professor Jason König: works broadly on the Greek literature and culture of the Roman Empire, including early Christian literature, with particular interests in the Greek and Latin novels, the literature of the symposium, the encyclopaedic and miscellanistic writing of the Imperial period and ancient athletic culture.
• Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis: works on the material culture and Greek literature of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. She is interested in landscape, religion and travel, particularly pilgrimage, embodied and sensory approaches to antiquity, the modern reception of Greek art and material culture, and the intersection between material and literary culture.
• Dr Nicolas Wiater: main areas of research interest are Hellenistic and early imperial Greek literature and culture, especially historiography (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Polybius, Diodorus, Josephus) and literary criticism (Dionysius of Halicarnassus).

The following members of staff are currently undertaking research in Latin literature:

• Dr Emma Buckley: works on the Latin literature of the early imperial era, especially post-Virgilian epic and drama; and on the reception of Virgil and Ovid in the mediaeval, Renaissance and early modern periods.
• Dr Tom Geue: works on Greek and Roman imperial literature; Roman satire, especially Juvenal; authorship, autobiography, anonymity and pseudonymity in ancient literature; and on classical reception in the English Restoration.
• Dr Alice König: works on the Latin literature and culture of the first century CE, with a particular interest in ancient technical writing (especially Vitruvius and Frontinus), in literary interactions between Flavian, Trajanic and Hadrianic authors, and in the interface between Latin literature and imperial politics.
• Dr Giuseppe Pezzini: works on Roman republican literature and culture, especially comedy; Latin language and linguistics; history of classical scholarship; metre, textual criticism, and digital humanities.
• Dr Roger Rees: works on Latin prose, poetry (including Virgil and Catullus) and later Roman history with a main focus on Latin panegyric and praise discourse in Roman society; also on the reception of Latin literature in modern English verse.