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Research in the Department of Classics

Nottingham’s Department of Classics incorporates scholars of international standing and several dedicated research centres and institutes. The research interests of the Department cover a broad spread of topics in the study of Classical Antiquity, divided into the following six areas:

The research interests of Professors Emeriti and Honorary Research Fellows are also listed below.

Staff research interests

Members of the Department welcome inquiries from potential research students, post-doctoral researchers, or academic collaborators in the specialist areas listed below. Please also see our recent and forthcoming publications, our research projects, our research seminars and workshops, and the research centres and institutes which we run or in which we are involved.

Greek History and Society

Stephen Hodkinson: Classical Sparta; Greek Slavery
Kostas Vlassopoulos: Social and Economic History; Democracy and Slavery in Classical Athens

Greek Literature

Alan Sommerstein: Greek Drama; The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece
Judith Mossman: Greek Literature, esp. Euripides, Plutarch, Lucian; Women’s Speech
Patrick Finglass: Greek Literature, esp. tragedy, lyric

Roman History and Society

Doug Lee: Late Antiquity, esp. Warfare, Diplomacy, Religion
Mark Bradley: Cultural and intellectual history of the late Republic and early Empire, esp. religion, politics, rhetoric
Carl Buckland: Imperial History and Culture, esp. rhetoric, gender and sexuality, religion
Simon Malloch: late Republican and early Imperial History

Latin Literature

Betine Van Zyl Smit: Latin literature, esp. Senecan tragedy
Helen Lovatt: Latin literature; Greek and Latin Epic
Lynn Fotheringham: Late Republican Literature, esp. Cicero’s Speeches; Stylistics
Simon Malloch: Roman Historiography, especially Tacitus; Exemplary literature, especially Frontinus
Carl Buckland: Prose esp. Imperial Biography, Panegyric, Ancient Novels

Greek and Roman Art and Visual Culture

Katharina Lorenz: Greek and Roman Mythological Imagery; Late Classical Greek Vase-Painting and Sculpture
Andreas Kropp: Hellenistic and Roman Near East
Mark Bradley: Colour and visual perception in the Roman World
Lynn Fotheringham: Visual Narrative

Classical Tradition, Reception and Comparative Studies

Stephen Hodkinson: Reception and Comparative History of Sparta
Judith Mossman: Reception of Greek Tragedy & Biography
Betine Van Zyl Smit: Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Literature, esp. South Africa Drama
Helen Lovatt: Reception of Epic; the Argonaut Myth
Patrick Finglass: History of Classical Scholarship
Kostas Vlassopoulos: History of Ancient and Modern Historiography; Greek History in Comparative Perspective
Katharina Lorenz: Image Studies and Art Theory
Mark Bradley: Reception of Roman Politics, art and culture, esp. during the British Empire
Lynn Fotheringham: Historical Novels, Comics, Film
Carl Buckland: Comics, Film, Television
Simon Malloch: History of Classical Scholarship

Professors Emeriti and Honorary Research Fellows

John Drinkwater: Roman Gaul; the West in Late Antiquity; Western Germanic Peoples; the Office of Emperor
Wolf Liebeschuetz: Late Antiquity, esp. Christian and Pagan Religion, Settlement of Barbarians
Jim Roy: Social and Institutional History of Ancient Greece, esp. Arkadia and Elis
John Salmon: Greek History, esp. Athenian Public Building
John Rich: Roman Republican and Early Imperial History; Roman Warfare and International Relations

Department of Classics

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