Dr Lisa Doyle

Classics and Ancient History
Teaching Fellow in Ancient Greek Literature

Contact details

Email: l.doyle.2@bham.ac.uk

My main research interests are ancient Greek scholarship and the intellectual culture of the Hellenistic period. I work on the commentary tradition and scholia, the annotations and commentary notes which survive in the margins of manuscripts.

Qualifications

PhD Classics, Trinity College Dublin (2024)
MSc Classics, University of Edinburgh (2019)
BA (Hons) Classical Civilisations and Modern Irish, Trinity College Dublin (2017)

Biography

After completing a BA at Trinity College Dublin and an MSc at the University of Edinburgh, I returned to Trinity to complete a PhD. For my doctoral research, I worked on a funded project analysing the scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes’ Hellenistic epic, the Argonautica. I joined the University of Birmingham in 2024.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Doyle, L 2023, 'Sophist, Emperor and sophrosyne: Moderation in Libanius' Julianic Orations', Mnemosyne, vol. 76, no. 5, pp. 820-836. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-bja10137

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Doyle, L 2025, Etymologies in the Margins: Etymological Practices in the Scholia on Apollonius' Argonautica. in A Zucker, C Le Feuvre & M Chriti (eds), Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology: Theory and Practice II. Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, De Gruyter, pp. 257-278.

Other contribution

McIlrath, L, Bowman, S, Lima, G, Deane, A, Brennan, C, Flynn, A, Bates, C, Wallace, D, Doris, E, Canny, G, Brennan, J, Banks, J, Lloyd-Hughes, JA, Morris, K, Doyle, L, Adshead, M, Murphy, P, Hynes, R & Schmidt, NŠ (ed.) 2023, Policy recommendations for the enhancement of community engagement in higher education: National and system-level policy recommendations for Ireland. Institute for the Development of Education. <https://community-engagement.eu/knowledge-hub/>