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Genevieve Liveley
Senior Lecturer in Classics
Phone: +44 (0)117 95 46823
Email: g.liveley@bristol.ac.uk
Research
Dr Liveley’s principal research interests are in Augustan literature, critical theory, and the classical tradition. She is co-editor and contributor to a recent volume on Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story and author of A Reader’s Guide to Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Ovid: Love Songs – a re-evaluation of the poet’s politics, poetics and erotics which assesses the continued relevance and readability of Ovid’s work for a twenty-first century audience. She is currently working on a larger project on time and narrative in Roman elegy. Her other publications include (among others) articles and essays on the classical tradition, cyborgs, and chaos theory.
She is interested in supervising doctoral research in any of these areas – but particularly projects that relate to Augustan literature and its receptions.
Teaching
Dr Liveley’s teaching interests are in Latin literature and culture, gender and sexuality, critical theory, and the classical tradition. She teaches both Latin and Greek and has particular interests in Augustan poetry and narratology. In 20011/12 she is teaching the following units:
- Time & Temporality
- Continuity & Change: Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Configurations of Gender & Sexuality
Selected publications
- A Reader's Guide to Ovid's Metamorphoses (2011) Continuum Press.
- 'Birthday Letters from Pontus: Ted Hughes and the white noise of classical elegy' (2009) in Ted Hughes and the Classics, Roger Rees (ed.) OUP
- Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story (2008), edited with Patricia Salzman, OSUP.
- 'Surfing the Third Wave? Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics of Reception' (2006) in Classics and the Uses of Reception, Charles Martindale and Richard Thomas (eds.), Blackwells.
- 'Ovid in Defeat? On the Reception of Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris in the twentieth century’ (2006) in The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris, Roy Gibson, Steve Green and Alison Sharrock (eds.) OUP.
- Ovid: Love Songs (2005). Duckworth.
- 'Science Fictions & Cyber Myths Or, Do Cyborgs Dream of Dolly the Sheep?' (2005) in Laughing with Medusa, Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard (eds.), OUP.
- 'Tiresias-Teresa: A Man-made-woman in Ovid's Metamorphoses 316-38' (2003) Helios 30.2. 147-162
- 'Reading Resistance in Ovid’s Metamorphoses' (1999) in Ovidian Transformations: Essays on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and its Reception, eds. P. Hardie, S. Hinds and A. Barchiesi. 197-213.