Research Output per year
Organization profile
Organisation profile
The Department of Classics and Ancient History ranks among the best in Britain and enjoys an international reputation. It has been highly praised for its innovative approach to the teaching of Classics and Ancient History, and draws a diverse body of undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The Department is highly rated for its original and cutting edge research, and it has been awarded a five (international excellence in some sub-areas of activity and national excellence in virtually all others) in all Research Assessment Exercises so far.
The academic staff offers many perspectives on the ancient world, drawing on the insights offered by, for instance, structuralism, Marxism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis and anthropology, and a wide range of specialisms, such as:
- myth and religion
- reception and the classical tradition
- history and historiography
- visual and material culture
- literary and critical theory
- literature
- intellectual history
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Profiles
Research Output
The Transmission of Christianity in Late Antiquity: Mind, Culture and Cognition
Sandwell, I., 2023, (In preparation) Cambridge University Press.Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
Narrative Contagion and the Poetics of Coercion in Archaic and Classical Greece
Michelakis, P., 2022, (In preparation) Oxford University Press.Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
Anne Carson/Antiquity
Jansen, L., 2021, (In preparation) Bloomsbury Academic.Research output: Book/Report › Edited book
Projects
The Virtual Reality Oracle (VRO): An Immersive Experience of the Ancient Greek Oracle at Dodona
1/06/20 → 31/05/23
Project: Research
Student theses
Fiction and the Historical Frame
Author: Cole, R., 25 Jun 2019Supervisor: O'Gorman, E. (Supervisor) & Sandwell, I. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Fluid Bodies: Queering Gender in Ancient Greece
Author: Rengel, B., 23 Jan 2019Supervisor: Michelakis, P. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
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Hatred in Hesiod
Author: Kilgallon, S., 25 Jun 2019Supervisor: Michelakis, P. (Supervisor) & Lampe, K. W. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Prizes
Bristol University Teaching Award(PGR Supervision)
Momigliano, Nicoletta (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Bristol University Teaching Award (Students' Award)
Momigliano, Nicoletta (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant
Jansen, Laura I (Recipient), 20 Mar 2020
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Activities
Keynote lecture on "Lightness, quickness, multiplicity. Three memos for Classicists"
Laura I Jansen (Participant)
6 Apr 2022
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk
Editing Greek and Roman Fragmentary Drama: A Word to the Editors
Lyndsay Coo (Invited speaker)
2021 → …
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
‘Classics and "Literatura incompleta": Borges’
Laura I Jansen (Participant)
28 May 2021
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference