Notes on Contributors
Buket Akgün is Assistant Professor of English at Istanbul University, where she teaches courses on 18th-century English novel, Chaucer, Shakespeare adaptations and reception, fantasy fiction, graphic and visual narratives, mythology, witches and witchcraft in fiction among other topics. She has published on classical reception, art and literature, speculative fiction, and witches. Her current studies focus on historical, mythological, and literary reception in graphic and visual narratives.
Antony Augoustakis is Professor of Classics and Langan Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, USA). He is the editor of The Classical Journal. He is the author of Statius, Thebaid 8 (Oxford, 2016), Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (Oxford, 2010) and Plautus’ Mercator (Bryn Mawr, 2009). He has edited the Oxford Readings in Flavian Epic (Oxford, 2016), Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic (Oxford, 2013), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (Leiden, 2014), and the Brill Companion to Silius Italicus (Leiden, 2010), and co-edited with Carole Newlands Statius’ Silvae and the Poetics of Intimacy (Arethusa, 2007), with Ariana Traill the Blackwell Companion to Terence (Malden, MA, 2013), and with Monica Cyrino, Spartacus: Reimagining an Icon on Screen (Edinburgh, 2016). He is currently working, among other projects, on a monograph on Death, Burial and Ritual in Flavian Epic and two commentaries, on Silius Italicus’ Punica 3 and ps.-Seneca’s Hercules Oetaeus.
Neil W. Bernstein is Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University. He teaches courses on Latin language and literature, Roman civilization, classical mythology, and ancient epic and drama. He is the author of Seneca: Hercules Furens (Bloomsbury Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy, London, 2017); Silius Italicus, Punica 2. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford, 2017); Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation (Oxford, 2013); and In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic (Toronto, 2008). His current project is a translation of Silius Italicus’ Punica, co-authored with Antony Augoustakis.
Emma Buckley is Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at St Andrews. She is the editor (with Martin Dinter) of A Companion to the Neronian Age (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and has published articles on early imperial poetry and drama; the reception of Virgil, Ovid, Lucan and Seneca in early modern England; and on the university plays of William Gager and Matthew Gwinne. She is currently preparing (with Edward Paleit) a modern edition of Thomas May’s 1627 Pharsalia.
Marta Cardin was trained in Greek Philology at Ca’ Foscari University (Venice) and at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa); she has held research grants from Ca’ Foscari and from the Fondazione Giorgio Pasquali (Pisa), and has been a researcher in the national research program “Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus: forms and transmission of the ancient exegesis” (“FIRB”, 2014–2016). She has published papers on fragmentary Hesiodic poetry and its transmission, and is currently working on a new critical edition of John Tzetzes’ commentary to Hesiod’s Works and Days.
Reinhold F. Glei studied classical and medieval Latin and Greek at Cologne University, Germany, where he gained his PhD in 1983 with a dissertation on the Pseudo-Homeric Batrachomyomachia. After being a Research Assistant at Ruhr-University Bochum, in 1993 he was appointed Full Professor at the University of Bielefeld. In 1996, he returned to Bochum, where he holds the chair of Latin Philology. Special fields of interest are Neo-Latin literature, secondary literary forms (parody, supplements, centos), and the reception of Islam in the Latin West.
Marie Louise von Glinski is the author of Simile and Identity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Her main research interest lies in Latin poetry, especially Ovid and Seneca, figurative language and intertextuality, and the creation of fictional worlds.
Adam J. Goldwyn is Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature and English at North Dakota State University. He is the editor of The Trojan Wars and the Making of the Modern World (Uppsala, 2015) and Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde (Brill, 2017). With Dimitra Kokkini, he is translator of the twelfth-century Byzantine grammarian John Tzetzes’ Allegories of the Iliad (Harvard UP, 2015) and the forthcoming Allegories of the Odyssey (Harvard UP, 2019). His monograph Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance was published in Palgrave-MacMillan’s New Middles Ages Series in 2018.
Nickolas A. Haydock is a professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. He is the author of Situational Poetics in Robert Henryson’s ‘Testament of Cresseid’ (2010), Movie Medievalism: The Imaginary Middle Ages (2008), and (with E.L. Risden) Beowulf on Film: Adaptations and Variations (2013). He also serves as the series editor for Cambria Studies in Classicism, Orientalism and Medievalism.
Orestis Karavas (PhD Université de Strasbourg, France) is currently Assistant Professor at the University of the Peloponnese (Kalamata, Greece). His main research interests are in Lucian and his contemporaries, the literature and religion of the Imperial age, and classical and post-classical drama. He is the author of Lucien et la tragédie (DeGruyter, 2005) and of several papers on Lucian. He has recently completed a commentary of Colluthus’ Rape of Helen.
Martha Klironomos is Professor of Modern Greek Studies and English at San Francisco State University where she has been teaching since 1996. Her research areas include Greek and Anglo-American modernism, twentieth-century British and American travel writing to Greece and contemporary Greek American literature. She is working on a book-length study on memory and classical reception in the work of the Greek Nobel Laureate George Seferis (forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic).
Kristin Lindfield-Ott is Programme Leader for Literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century Scotland, but she is also interested in the interconnections between place and literature in other periods. She has published on Scottish literary tourism, Ossian, Jules Verne and Michel Faber, and is currently working on her first monograph Macpherson the Historian: Historiography, Nation-building and Enlightenment Culture (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press). Her next project is the history of the Royal Celtic Society.
Jardar Lohne is a research scientist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He defended his doctoral thesis—Le triomphe de la vertu—Étude sur les représentations d’ une épistémologie morale dans le Télémaque de Fénelon in 2008. His current interest is applied ethics. The latest publication (Lohne et al., 2017) is Ethical behavior in the design phase of AEC projects, International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 10 (2).
Calum A. Maciver is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He has also held research posts in Germany and Switzerland. He is author of a monograph on Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica (2012) and of several articles on epic poetry. He is currently working on a new monograph on Statius and the tradition of ancient scholarship, and recently finished a translation of Quintus as part of the Collected Imperial Greek Epics (Berkeley, 2018).
Elizabeth Minchin is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the Australian National University. She has published extensively on the Homeric epics, including Homer and the Resources of Memory (2001) and Homeric Voices: Discourse, Memory, Gender (2008).
Francine Mora-Lebrun received the PhD degree from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1992. She has been teaching at the Universities of Paris-Sorbonne, Nantes, and Versailles, where she is currently Professor emeritus. She works on the reception of Antiquity in the Middle Ages. She supervised a French translation of Joseph of Exeter’s Ylias published by Brepols in 2003 and wrote several articles about it between 2000 and 2012.
Anne Rogerson is the Charles Tesoriero Senior Lecturer in Latin at the University of Sydney. She works on Virgil’s Aeneid and its reception from antiquity to the present day, and is the author of Virgil’s Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Robert Simms is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo, with research interests in post-Augustan epic as well as Classical Reception, especially in early modern England. His monograph, Anticipation and Anachrony in Statius’ Thebaid, is forthcoming (Bloomsbury, 2019).