Institute of Greece, Rome and The Classical Tradition
Current Fellows
Dr Jessica Priestley (Thornhill-Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies)
Jessica Priestley has research interests in Herodotus and his reception in antiquity, Hellenistic literature, and ancient geographical thought. She has also worked and published on archaic Greek lyric. Her 2010 Cambridge PhD thesis, 'Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture: Studies in the Reception of the Historiae', highlighted Herodotus’ pervasive importance in a variety of different areas of intellectual pursuit during the Hellenistic period. It argued that much in the Histories foreshadowed Hellenistic concerns and interests, which contributed to the continuing engagement with and contestation of Herodotus’ work. During the course of her fellowship at the Institute, she plans to revise her thesis for publication and to begin a new project, provisionally entitled 'Hellenistic Geography and Poetry: Refocusing the History of a Science'. This project will highlight the importance of the poetic tradition in the Hellenistic period for the history of geography by examining the ways in which the poetry of this period can illuminate contemporary geographical knowledge.
In 2010-2011 Dr Priestley will be lecturing Greek C2 ('Comedy and Philosophy on Tragedy'). She will also be organising outreach events for local schools and the general public to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon.
Dr Stephen D’Evelyn (Cassamarca Fellow in Latin Language & Literature and its Reception)
Dr D’Evelyn is a Medieval Latinist, who studied previously at Brown University in Rhode Island. His current research involves reading the poetry of Catullus, Horace, and Venantius Fortunatus in the light of ancient and modern gift-theory, which helps interpret practices ranging from patronage and religious sacrifice to the exchange of gifts between lovers. An edition with commentary on Hildegard of Bingen's Symphonia, in which he shows what sources Hildegard read in composing her lyrics and how those lyrics relate to her oeuvre, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Past Fellows
2009-10
Dr Emily Pillinger (Vice-Chancellor's Centen
ary Fellow)
Emily Pillinger made use of her year in Bristol to prepare her doctoral thesis for publication (manuscript currently under review by CUP), write three journal articles (one forthcoming, two about to be submitted for review) and give a large number of conference papers; she also taught some Beginners’ Latin and gave a schools outreach talk. She has now moved to Balliol College, Oxford, for a two-year Stipendiary Lectureship, and writes that she has no doubt that her year in Bristol helped her secure this position at a time when there are so few academic openings.
Dr Kate Nichols (Henry Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow)
Kate Nichols obtained a contract for her monograph on Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace. Classical Sculpture and Modern Britain, 1854-1936, and began revising the manuscript; she also wrote two articles, both currently under consideration by journals, and gave several papers at conferences and seminars. She is now a teaching fellow in nineteenth-century European art history at the University of York, and attributes her success in gaining this position to her intellectual development during her time with the Institute this year; ‘When I started at Bristol ... such a post would have seemed far beyond my reach.’
Dr Steve D'Evelyn (Cassamarca Fellow)
2008-9
Dr Steve D'Evelyn (Cassamarca Fellow)
2007-8
Dr Steve D'Evelyn (Cassamarca Fellow)
2006-7
Dr Liz Potter (Leventis Fellow): ‘The reception of Athenian democracy in the long nineteenth century.’
Dr Potter is currently College Lecturer in Ancient History at Balliol and Brasenose Colleges in Oxford.
Dr Steve D'Evelyn (Cassamarca Fellow)
2005-6
Dr Henry Power (Donor’s Fellow), working on 18th-century epic and novel and on Cowley and Virgil.
Dr Power is now Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, and is working on articles and a monograph on the reception of Virgil in the English Civil War; he is also contributing a chapter on the English novel to the forthcoming Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, 1660-1780, edited by Charles Martindale and David Hopkins and a chapter on Virgil and Milton in the new Blackwell Companion to Milton, edited by Joseph Farrell and Michael Putnam.
Dr Liz Potter (Leventis Fellow)
2004-5
Dr Katherine Harloe (Leventis Fellow), ‘Nietzsche and the Greeks’
Dr Harloe is now Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, having also held a postdoctoral fellowship in Oxford after leaving Bristol; she has published articles on classical reception in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, and is co-editing (with Neville Morley) the papers from the 2007 workshops on the modern reception of Thucydides.
2003-4
Dr Isobel Hurst, ‘Homer in 19th-century English literature by women writers.’
Since leaving Bristol, Dr Hurst has taught at Oxford and Warwick, and is now Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her book Victorian Women Writers and the Classics was published by OUP in 2006.
Dr Stefano-Maria Evangelista, ‘Classics and modernism’.
Following his year in Bristol, Dr Evangelista was appointed to a 4-year fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, and is now CUF Lecturer in the Faculty of English and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
2002-3
Dr Paul Botley, ‘Learning Greek in the Renaissance’
Dr Botley is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Scaliger Project at the Warburg Institute. His book, Greek Translation in the Renaissance, was published by CUP in 2004
Dr Alexandra Lianeri (Leventis Fellow): ‘The idea and ideal of Democracy. The ancient Greek Concept of Democracy in English Translations’
Dr Lianeri co-organised a conference on ‘Translation and the Classic’ with Vanda Zajko, papers from which have now been published as Translation and the Classic: identity as change in the history of culture (OUP, 2008). After leaving Bristol she held the Moses & Mary Finley Fellowship at Darwin College, Cambridge, and has recently been appointed to a permanent position at Thessaloniki.
2001-2
Dr Alexandra Lianeri (see above; appointed for two years)
Dr Christos Nifadopoulos (Leventis Fellow): Authority and Ancient Education
Dr Nifadopoulos edited Etymologia: Studies in Ancient Etymology (Münster, 2003)
2000-1
Dr Genevieve Liveley: ‘The Poet and the Women: feminist responses to Ovid’
Dr Lively is now Lecturer in Classics at Bristol. Her book Ovid: Love Songs was published by Duckworth in 2005, and she has also published a number of articles on the Metamorphoses and on the reception of Ovid.
Dr Frisbee Sheffield (Leventis Fellow): ‘Eros and Philosophy in Plato's Symposium’
Dr Sheffield's book Plato's Symposium: the ethics of desire (OUP) was published in 2006, as was the co-edited volume Plato's Symposium: issues in interpretation and reception (Harvard).