Members of KYKNOS
SWANSEA:
Professor J R Morgan (Leader of KYKNOS)
E-mail: john.morgan@swan.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Greek and Roman fiction
Professor Mark Humphries
E-mail: m.humphries@swansea.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Late-antique literature, especially classicising and ecclesiastical historiography; religious polemic; representations of imperial power in literature
Dr Ian Repath
E-mail: i.repath@swan.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Second sophistic prose fiction, especially the Greek novel; the use of names and allusions in fiction; ancient physiognomy; literary aspects of Plato
Dr Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
E-mail: F.G.Herrmann@swan.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Greek language and literature; ancient philosophy; the interaction between argument structure and narrative structure in classical texts
Dr Martina Minas-Nerpel
E-mail: m.minas-nerpel@swan.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Egyptian languages (especially Ptolemaic and Demotic); political, cultural and religious history of Graeco-Roman Egypt; religious history of Egypt
Dr Maria Pretzler
E-mail: m.pretzler@swan.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Pausanias; travel literature; historiography
Dr Gillian Bazovsky
E-mail: gillianbazovsky@rocketmail.com
Areas of expertise: The reception of the ancient novel in English literature
Maria-Elpiniki Oikonomou
E-mail: mariaelpiniki_oikonomou@yahoo.co.uk
Areas of expertise: The Ephesiaka of Xenophon of Ephesos
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LAMPETER:
Dr Mirjam Plantinga
E-mail: m.plantinga@lamp.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Hellenistic poetry; Greek and Roman epic
Dr Magdalena Öhrman (Secretary of KYKNOS)
E-mail: m.ohrman@lamp.ac.uk
Dr Owen Hodkinson
E-mail: o.hodkinson@lamp.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Letters in narratives and narratives in letters, including fictional letters and the epistolary novel
Dr Evelien Bracke
E-mail: e.bracke@lamp.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: The representation of myth in Greek and Roman (particularly Augustan) poetry; metis and magic in the Argonautic myth
Dr Pauline Hanesworth
E-mail: p.hanesworth@lamp.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: myth and religion in early Greek poetry, especially Homeric, Hesiodic and Euripidean literature
Dr Meriel Jones
E-mail: meriel_jones@yahoo.co.uk
Areas of expertise: Greek and Roman fiction; gender, magic and names in ancient narratives
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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS:
Professor Ewen Bowie (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
E-mail: ewen.bowie@corpus-christi.oxford.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Archaic and Roman imperial Greek literature
Associate Professor Kathryn Chew (California State University, Long Beach)
E-mail: kchew@csulb.edu
Areas of expertise: Greek and Roman fiction
Elizabeth Dollins (Exeter)
E-mail: K.Doulamis@ucc.ie
Areas of expertise: The Greek novel (especially rhetoric and stylistics) and its relationship to its contemporary literary discourse; rhetorical theory in the Imperial and later period (PhD student)
Dr Konstantin Doulamis (Cork)
E-mail: elgd201@exeter.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: The Greek and Roman Novels, readers and modes of reading, the gaze & visuality, and sexuality in the novels
Professor Ken Dowden (Birmingham)
E-mail: k.dowden@bham.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Religious and quantitative aspects of the novel; particular interests in Apuleius, Heliodoros and the Greek Diktys
Dr Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham)
E-mail: Lynn.Fotheringham@nottingham.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Oratorical narrative (especially Roman); interactions between verbal and visual narratives, ancient and modern
Helen Gilmore McVeigh (Maynooth)
E-mail: hmcv@ymail.com
Areas of expertise: ancient fiction (PhD student, writing commentary on Chariton book 6)
Professor Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
E-mail: stephen.harrison@classics.ox.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: ancient fiction and its reception, especially Apuleius
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjh
Daniel King (Merton College, Oxford)
E-mail: daniel.king@merton.ox.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: The intersection of the experience of pain, narrative structure, and language in second century AD Greek culture (topic of DPhil thesis in progress); the History of the Body, Space and Identity, the History of Science, and debates about different theories of history and knowledge.
Associate Professor Helen Lovatt (Nottingham)
E-mail: Helen.Lovatt@nottingham.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: ancient epic and its reception; vision and the gaze; Jason and the Argonauts
Dr Karen Ní Mheallaigh (Exeter)
E-mail: K.Ni-Mheallaigh@ex.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Greek and Roman Fiction, especially the concept of fiction in antiquity; the works of Lucian of Samosata; pseudo-documentarism; Homeric revisionist fiction; the literary reception of Plato in antiquity
Professor Daniel Ogden (Exeter)
E-mail: d.ogden@ex.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Traditional narratives and folktales, especially in connection with ghosts, magic, snakes and dragons, rulership and Sparta/Messenia
http://www.huss.ex.ac.uk/classics/staff/ogden/index.php
Dr Costas Panayotakis (Glasgow)
E-mail: c.panayotakis@classics.arts.gla.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: the Roman novel, especially Petronius, and its interaction with popular theatrical culture
Assistant Professor Stelios Panayotakis (University of Crete)
E-mail: panayotakis@phl.uoc.gr
Areas of expertise: Roman fiction, late Latin language and literature
Professor Danny Praet (Universiteit Gent / Ghent University)
E-mail: Danny.Praet@UGent.be
Areas of expertise: the interaction between philosophy, religion and narrative in spiritual biographies and the novel
Professor David Scourfield (Maynooth)
E-mail: david.scourfield@nuim.ie
Areas of expertise: The Greek novel; Petronius; early Christian narrative
Dr Ruth Webb (Birkbeck, University of London)
E-mail: r.webb@history.bbk.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Rhetorical theory and practice, particularly ekphrasis and enargeia, and the relationship between rhetoric and fiction. Theatrical performance in the Imperial period.
Professor Tim Whitmarsh (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
E-mail: tim.whitmarsh@ccc.ox.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Greek, Roman and Near Eastern prose fiction
Professor Froma Zeitlin (Princeton)
E-mail: fiz@princeton.edu
Areas of expertise: Greek literature, especially Greek drama and ancient prose fiction, myth and ritual, gender and society
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VISITING RESEARCHERS:
Dr Koen De Temmerman (Ghent)
E-mail: koen.detemmerman@ugent.be
Areas of expertise: Characterization and rhetorical dynamics in fictional literature; narratology; physiognomy
http://users.ugent.be/~kdtemmer
Dr Saiichiro Nakatani (Kagoshima Prefectural College)
E-mail: snakatani@k-kentan.ac.jp
Areas of expertise: The literary interpretation and reception history of the ancient novel, especially Achilles Tatius and Longus
Loreto Núñez (Lausanne)
E-mail: MariaLoreto.Nunez@unil.ch
Areas of expertise: Ancient novel, narratology, embedded narratives; Second Sophistic, persona, ethos; enunciation theory, comparative literature
Aldo Tagliabue
E-mail: acf.tagliabue@gmail.com
Areas of expertise: Xenophon of Ephesus, Homer
Anne Pinkepank
E-mail: apinkep@gwdg.de
Areas of expertise: Gods and fate in the Greek novels