Emily Greenwood
Associate Professor
She is currently writing a book entitled Classics: a Beginner’s Guide, for Oneworld Publications, and is editing a special issue on ‘Classics and Contemporary Fiction’ for the Classical Receptions Journal, for which she is also an Associate Editor.
Her research interests include ancient Greek historiography, Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, twentieth century classical receptions (especially uses of Classics in Africa, Britain, the Caribbean, and Greece), Classics and Postcolonialism, and the theory and practice of translating the ‘classics’ of Greek and Roman literature. She is more than happy to talk to students who are interested in working in any of these areas.
Current Courses
Thucydides (GREK434 / 734) Xenophon’s Socratic Writings (GREK418), Classics in Black(CLCV238), Translatio: Translation and the Classics (CLSS 891b)
Selected Recent Publications
- Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century(Oxford University Press, 2009)
- ‘Shades of Rome in the Poetry of Derek Walcott’, in Living Classics:
Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English, edited by Stephen Harrison.
Oxford University Press, 2009 (pp. 255-74) - ‘Fictions of Dialogue in Thucydides’, in The end of Ancient Dialogue?,
edited by Simon Goldhill. Cambridge University Press, 2008 (pp. 15-28) - Thucydides and the Shaping of History (Duckworth, 2006)
- [Co-edited with Liz Irwin] Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in
Book 5 of Herodotus’ Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2007) - [Co-edited with Barbara Graziosi] Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
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