Staff Profile:Dr Amy Smith
- Name:
- Dr Amy Smith
- Job Title:
- Senior Lecturer
- Responsibilities:
Senior Lecturer and Curator, Ure Museum.
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11-12 and Thursdays 2-3
Dr Smith is a classical archaeologist, with a primary interest in iconography and its many manifestations, especially in politics and religion.
- Areas of Interest:
- Greek and Roman art and archaeology, especially iconography and vase painting; gender, religion, and politics in ancient Greece; antiquities museums, online or offline.
- Research groups / Centres:
Dr. Smith is a research associate of the Beazley Archive, University of Oxford (see http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk) and an editor of Digital Classicist (see http://www.digitalclassicist.org). She created (with Brian Fuchs) VLMA (Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives) (sponsored by JISC in 2004-2005).
Dr Smith is also a member of the following research groups:
Key Facts:
Dr Smith received her degrees from Yale (PhD, MPhil, MA) and Dartmouth (BA), and was also educated at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the American Academy in Rome, and the American Numismatic Society, and studied German at the Herder Institute, Leipzig. Before her appointment at Reading she lectured at Tufts University, Boston College, and the Massachusetts College of Art. She has also worked as an editor (Perseus Project; American Journal of Archaeology) and as curatorial assistant at the Yale University Art Gallery. She has excavated at the American School of Classical Studies' excavations in Greece (Athens' Agora and Corinth) and Spain (Pollentia, Alcudia, Majorca).
- Publications:
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Amy's work on the representation of mythic and divine figures is reflected in her recently published multiauthored volume, Brill's Companion to Aphrodite (for press release click here).
Much of her current research focuses on vase painting (see Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 23, Reading Museum Service and her recent article on the Pan Painter in Hesperia [December 2006].) Dr. Smith has also written on sculpture and coins. She has written articles on art and mythology (maenads, satyrs, personifications, and goddesses) and also on classics and electronic technology. Her online publications include:
- 'The politics of weddings at Athens: an iconographic assessment,' Leeds International Classical Studies 4.1 (August 2005) at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/lics/2005/200501.pdf
- 'The Symbiosis Between Content and Technology in the Perseus Digital Library (with Gregory Crane, Brian Fuchs, and Clifford E. Wulfman) in Cultivate Interactive 2 (16 October 2000) at http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/perseus
- 'Athenian Political Art from the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC,' in C.W. Blackwell ed., Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy at http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/ (since Fall 1999)
