Notes on Contributors
Klaas Bentein
received a master’s degree in Classics from Ghent University in 2007, and a doctoral degree in Linguistics from the same university in 2012. Afterwards, he worked, a.o., as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Michigan and Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies. He is currently Associate Research Professor at Ghent University, where he leads the ERC Starting Grant Project EVWRIT (www.evwrit.ugent.be), about the social semiotics of ‘everyday’, non-literary texts from Egypt (2018–2024). He has published widely in the fields of Ancient Greek Linguistics and papyrology, including several edited volumes with Brill and De Gruyter, and a monograph with Oxford University Press (2016).
Winnie Smith
is a PhD (DPhil) researcher at the University of Oxford, working on corpus approaches to Ancient Greek in documentary texts.
Chiara Monaco
obtained her PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge (2021) with a thesis on Greek Linguistic purism. She is now a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) (Ghent University 2021–2024) with a project entitled ‘The Aeolodoric Theory: a paradigm for Ancient Greek linguistic approaches’. Chiara’s research interests include sociolinguistics, metalinguistics, lexicography, language purism, and papyrology.
Luuk Huitink
is associate professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. He was formerly Leventis Research Fellow in Ancient Greek at Merton College, Oxford, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the University of Heidelberg and both Spinoza and Anchoring Innovation Research fellow at Leiden University. His research combines linguistic, narratological, and cognitive approaches to Greek literature. He is one of the authors of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (Cambridge 2019), and, together with Tim Rood, of Xenophon: Anabasis Book III (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 2019), and one of the editors of Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greek: Under the Spell of Stories (Oxford 2020); he is, with Ineke Sluiter and Vlad Glăveanu, editor of Social Psychology and the Ancient World: Methods and Applications, which will appear in the Euhormos series.
Tim Rood
is Professor of Greek Literature and Dorothea Gray Fellow and Tutor in Classics at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and was a Junior Research Fellow at Queen’s College, Oxford. In 2007–8 he was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. He is the author of Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation (Oxford University Press, 1998); The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination (Duckworth Overlook, 2004); American Anabasis: Xenophon and the Idea of America from the Mexican War to Iraq (Duckworth Overlook, 2010); (with Luuk Huitink) Xenophon: Anabasis Book III (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 2019); and (with Carol Atack and Tom Phillips) Anachronism and Antiquity (Bloomsbury, 2020). He has also written many articles on Greek historiography and its reception.
Gabriella Rubulotta
is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Università degli Studi di Messina, where she carries out the research project entitled Suspicious words: Atticist lexicographers and Xenophon (AtLeX). She also is an associated member of the Centre d’analyse des rhétoriques religieuses de l’Antiquité (CARRA) at the University of Strasbourg. In 2019, under the supervision of Prof. Laurent Pernot, she completed her doctoral thesis “La réception de Xénophon dans l’oeuvre d’Ælius Aristide: rhétorique et imitation à l’époque impériale”, which is currently under press. Her research interests focus on Xenophon’s reception during the Imperial age, rhetoric and lexicography.
Enrico Cerroni
is a post-doctoral researcher at Sapienza Università di Roma, where he is working on the Greek sources of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. He has authored journal articles and chapters on Greek semantics, focusing on semantic shifts, subjectification theory, and stylistic issues in Classical, Medieval, and Modern Greek literature. His interest in semantics inspired his 2022 book on the reception of Tyrtaeus in modern Italy (“Morir per la patria”: Tirteo in Italia dalla fine del Settecento al 1940). From 2020 to 2023, he taught Byzantine Civilization at the Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti—Pescara.
Anna A. Novokhatko
is Associate Professor of Classical Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has published numerous articles on Ancient Greek Comedy, history and terminology of Ancient scholarship, textual criticism, rhetoric. In her recent book on comedy and embodied scholarly discourse (De Gruyter 2023) she explored the interaction of comedy with pre-Alexandrian scholarship. Furthermore, she explores cognitive studies and their interaction with classics, ancient considerations on metaphor, as well as methodologies and development of Digital Classics.
Robert Machado
is a bye-fellow in Classics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Robert Crellin
is Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics, Oxford, where he works on the linguistics of the inscriptions from Ancient Sicily. He has published on a range of topics in both Greek and Latin and (Northwest) Semitic linguistics and writing systems, including on the syntax-semantics and syntax-phonology interfaces (the latter as mediated through writing systems), and is interested generally in the interaction between Semitic and Greek-Latin speech communities in the ancient world.
Eleni Bozia
is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Florida. She studies linguistic and cultural diversity in Imperial Greek and Latin literature and its intersection with modern globalism. She is the co-founder and Associate Director of the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project, an international consortium for the digital preservation of historical artifacts, and the founder and Head of the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group. Bozia holds two doctoral degrees: a Ph.D. in Classical Studies (University of Florida, 2009) and a Dr. Phil. in Digital Humanities (Universität Leipzig, 2018). She is the author of the books Lucian and his Roman Voices: Cultural Exchanges and Conflicts in the Late Roman Empire (Routledge, 2015) and Politics of Language: Foreign Nativeness and Identity in the Roman Empire (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).
Cressida Ryan
has taught New Testament Greek at the Universities of Nottingham and Oxford, and for the Blackfriars Studium (Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas). A Classicist by background, she has worked in various departments, including Theology, English, and Classics. Her research covers the relationship between philology, education, translation, and theology, from the Reformation to the present day. She has published on topics including Neo-Latin drama, communicative language teaching, Sophocles, and disability in education, and is currently working on a monograph about Martin Luther’s Latin translation of the New Testament.