Dr Liz Gloyn

 

Teaching Fellow in Latin Literature

Classics and Ancient History

Contact details

Email e.a.gloyn@bham.ac.uk

University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

About

My research interests focus on the intersections between Latin literature, ancient philosophy, social history and gender studies. I also work on classical reception, particularly in film.

Qualifications

  • PhD, Classics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA: The ethics of the family in Seneca.
  • M.Phil, Classics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA.
  • M.Phil, Classics, Newnham College, Cambridge University.
  • B.A. (Hons) in Classics, Newnham College, Cambridge University

Teaching

  • Augustan and Imperial Literature in Context, spring 2012.
  • Religion, Myth and Ritual, 2011-12.
  • Ancient Epic, 2011-12.
  • The Ancient Novel, autumn 2011 and spring 2012.
  • Latin IV, spring 2012.

Research

My current research projects are:

  • A book manuscript on the ethics of the family in Seneca’s philosophical work.
  • An article on Seneca’s Stoic approach to exile.
  • An article on gender, space and danger in the 1981 and 2010 Clash of the Titans films.

Other activities

  • Library representative for the IAA

Publications

  • Forthcoming: ‘She’s Only A Bird in a Gilded Cage: Freedwomen at Trimalchio’s Dinner Party.’ Classical Quarterly 62.1, May 2012.
  • Forthcoming: 4 entries (1,953 words) for the Virgil Encyclopedia, eds. R. Thomas and J. Ziolkowski, Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming) on Andromache (350 words), consolatio (400 words), familial relationship (592 words, with Tim O’Sullivan), reception, theories of (408 words), stepmothers (203 words).
  • 2011: ‘Teaching Sex and Gender in the Ancient World.’ Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 11.2: 25-35.
  • 2010: ‘ “It Had, Indeed, More Than Its Share of Pleasant Things”: Classical Allusion and Hope Mirrlees’ Lud-in-the-Mist.’ CA News 42: 12-15

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