Dr Hannah-Marie Chidwick
BA (Bristol), MA (Bristol), PhD
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Research interests
My research interest is war. I specialise in experimentation with different methodological approaches to the military and violence in texts, focusing on the portrayal of the Roman soldier in ancient literature and modern receptions. I work primarily with Roman history and Latin literature, but interweave critical military studies, and poststructuralist philosophy (particularly Gilles Deleuze). I completed my PhD at Bristol in 2017, with a thesis which read the bodies and behaviour of the military in Lucan's epic, Civil War, in light of the philosophical theory of ‘multiplicity’. I teach Roman history, Latin, and Classical literature in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, where I am also the Director of Teaching.
I am currently preparing my thesis for publication as a monograph, entitled Arms and the Many. Some of the themes and ideas of this book will also be published in the form of an article (for Ramus, Spring 2020), and as a chapter for an edited volume (Visualising War, CUP). I also run an outreach workshop series in secondary schools, Experiencing War in the Roman World (supported by the Bristol Classics Hub), which aims to encourage pupils to think differently about ancient warfare, and to introduce the Classical world to new audiences.
Research interests: war studies, Roman military history, Latin literature, military sociology, poststructuralist philosophy.
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Research projects
Public Engagement seed fund: Teaching Ancient Warfare in Schools, Colleges and Universities
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This 2-hour workshop aims to bring together teachers in schools, colleges and higher education institutions to discuss practices, problems and approaches to teaching war in the ancient world.
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IGRCT grant: The Body of the Combatant in the Classical World colloquium
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This one-day interdisciplinary colloquium invites participants to explore the depiction of the human body as a weapon in Greco-Roman texts. Discussion will focus on the representation of the body of…Managing organisational unit
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Publications
Recent publications
23/11/2019‘Politics Incarnate’ in Roman warfare
One or Many Milites?
Ate-Up: an interpretative translation of Lucan 4.168-82
The military step
QUIDQUID HOMO EST
HARTS & Minds