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Homer
Archaic poetry
Oral-formulaic theory and poetic diction
Constuction Grammars/Usage-Based Linguistics
The construction and reception of 'Homer' across time
My doctoral thesis explores the discourse and narrative function of ships in the Iliad. It considers their prominence, poetics, verbal presentation, and how they shape the difference between several basic ontic categories in the poem: between mortals and immortals, men and women, Greeks and Trojans, leaders and followers, and more.
I am also concerned with poetic diction itself, and the mechanics of oral (derived) composition. Focusing on a fundamental element of the Iliadic world (the ship) allows us to expose the ways in which conceptual, hierarchical, and narrative differences are encoded in – and by – the regularised and stochastic form-function pairings of epic language.
CL1765 - Intermediate Latin (2018-2019)
CL1530 - Greek Literature (2018-2019)
CL1715 - Intermediate Greek (2017-2018)
CL2200 - Greek Language Project (2017-2018)
Education
2015 MA Classics, UCL
2013 BA (hons) Ancient Greek and Classical Civilisation, Swansea
Scholarships and Awards
2018 CA Conference Bursary
2017 BSA Bursary - Linear B/Mycenaean Greek Course
2017 Ethel Beatrice Abrahams Award (RHUL research grant)
2017 CA Conference Bursary
2016 Reid Scholarship (RHUL)
2015 UCL: Dean’s list for academic excellence.
Service to Royal Holloway
Homer Reading Group (2016-)
Student Committee council member (2016-)
Auctor Journal editorial board (2017-)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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