AMPRAW2013 Keynote Biographies

Professor Edith Hall

Currently Professor of Classics at Kings College London, Edith Hall has conducted wide-ranging and celebrated research on the Reception of ancient Greece and Rome. Edith’s other research interests include Ancient Greek Social and Intellectual History, Ancient Greek Literature, Ancient Greek and Roman Performance Culture, Tragedy and Comedy, and Ethnicity, Gender and Class. Among many notable achievements and awards, including a prestigious Humboldt Research Prize in 2013, Edith is Co-Founder and Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford and Chairman of the Gilbert Murray trust. Edith regularly appears on BBC Radio and acts as a consultant in professional theatre productions and projects including the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her most recent publication, Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris, first published in December 2012, explores the cultural history of this Euripidean masterpiece from ancient Greece to the present.

Further information on Professor Edith Hall can be located at: www.edithhall.co.uk

Dr Christopher Stray

An Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London, Dr Christopher Stray is an authority on the history of classical education and scholarship, including pedagogy and publishing. His PhD thesis, Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960, was published by Oxford University Press (1998) and awarded a Runciman prize in 1999. Christopher co-founded the Textbook Colloquium in 1988, acts as consultant to Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press on the digitising of classical titles. Among his many publications are Remaking the Classics, ed. (Duckworth 2007), Oxford Classics: Teaching and Learning 1800–2000, ed. and contrib. (Duckworth, 2007), A Companion to Classical Receptions, ed. (Blackwell, 2009), ‘The Wooden Spoon: Rank (dis)order in Cambridge 1752-1909’ in History of Universities Vol. XXVI/1 (OUP, 2012), and ‘Education 1780-1880’ in Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Vol 4 (OUP, Forthcoming 2014).

Further information on Dr Christopher Stray can be located at: www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/artshumanities/oth/straychristopher/

Professor Maria Wyke

A Professor and Chair of Latin at University College London, Maria Wyke specialises in Latin literature (especially Roman love poetry), ancient gender and sexuality, Rome on film, and classical reception. Maria is Deputy Director of the Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Programmes (CHIRP) and is currently working on a collaborative and interdisciplinary project entitled Ancient Civilisations in Silent Cinema. Alongside receiving prestigious research awards and grants and publishing many critically acclaimed works in all her fields of interest, Maria has, since 1990, particularly focused on classical reception in modern, popular culture. Her recent publications include: Caesar in the USA (University of California Press 2012), and a co-edited collection with Pantelis Michelakis on Antiquity in Silent Cinema (Cambridge University Press 2013).

Further information on Professor Maria Wyke can be located at: www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/staff/fulltimestaff/mariawyke