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Edith Hall

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Edith Hall (Director), Research Professor of Classics & Drama, Royal Holloway. She is also Chair of The Gilbert Murray Trust and Co-Founding Co-Director at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama, University of Oxford (http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/). Edith researches the Reception of ancient epic, drama and political theory, especially ethnicity, gender, social class and imprisonment.

Richard Alston

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Richard Alston (Financial Director), Professor of Roman History, Royal Holloway. Richard has worked extensively on social and economic history of the Roman imperial period. His work is at the interface of ancient history and modern social theory. His current project is a comparative history of imperial formation of selves and his interest in Reception is in political philosophy.

Ahuvia Kahane

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Ahuvia Kahane (Director of International Relations), Professor of Greek and Director of the Humanities & Arts Research Centre, Royal Holloway. He is also Associate Director, University of London Institute in Paris, and Senior Associate, Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies. His research is focused on genre, representation, and historical time in the contexts of antiquity and its reception.

Amanda Claridge, Professor of Classical Archaeology, researches Roman archaeology, especially art, topography and monuments of the city of Rome. Her reception interests focus on antiquarian studies in 16th and 17th century Rome.

Richard Hawley

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Richard Hawley, Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, whose research embraces aspects of gender in Greco-Roman society, with special emphases on speech and appearance. His reception interests include classics in educational history, and in popular culture (film, television, music, design).

Nick Lowe, Reader in Classics at Royal Holloway. His research addresses the ancient and modern novel, cognitive science in relation to reading, Science Fiction, comedy, humour theory, the theory and history of narrative, the ancient book and Greek religion.

Anne Sheppard

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Anne Sheppard, Reader in Ancient Philosophy and Head of the Classics Department, has published on the reception of ancient philosophy, especially Platonism, in Ficino, English literature, and Arabic poetics. She plans a major research project on the reception of Plato's Republic.

Efi Spentzou

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Efi Spentzou, Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway. Her interests include the reception of Roman poetry (especially Ovid), critical theory, identity and gender. Her next project is a social history of modern Greek reworkings of Greek tragedy and the politics of their performance. For a paper on homecoming in modern Greek poetry click here.