Staff Profile:Dr P Vasunia

Name:

Dr Phiroze Vasunia

Job Title:

School Director of Research

Responsibilities:

Reader in Classics; School Director of Research

Areas of Interest:

Dr Vasunia's areas of interest are the study of empire and colonialism; cross-cultural contact between Greek and non-Greek cultures (e.g. Egypt, Persia, the Near East); and Herodotus.  He would be very happy to supervise research students in these areas.

Research groups / Centres:

Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms

 

Publications:

Books
The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).

Books in Progress
Classics and the British Empire: Greece, Rome, and Colonial India (under contract to Oxford University Press).

Empire without End: Postcolonial Theory and the Ancient World (under contract to I. B. Tauris).

Herodotus: Histories Book II (under contract to Cambridge University Press)

Edited Books

India, Greece, and Rome, 1757-2007, co-edited with Edith Hall (Bulletin of the Institute for Classical Studies, supplement volume, forthcoming in 2010).

Classics and National Cultures, co-edited with Susan Stephens (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2010).

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies, co-edited with George Boys-Stones and Barbara Graziosi (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Zarathushtra and the Religion of Ancient Iran: The Greek and Latin Sources in Translation (Mumbai: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, 2007).

Articles and Chapters

'Herodotus between East and West.'  Forthcoming.

'Alexander Sikandar.' In Classics and National Cultures, co-edited with Susan Stephens (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2010).

'Herodotus and the Greco-Persian Wars', PMLA volume 124, number 5, October 2009, pp. 1834-1837.

'Virgil and the British Empire, 1760–1880.' In Lineages of Empire: The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought (2009), edited by Duncan Kelly [= Proceedings of the British Academy, 155], pp. 83-116.

'Dalpatram's Lakshmi and Aristophanes' Wealth.' In Aristophanes in Performance 412 BCE–2005 CE, edited by Edith Hall and Amanda Wrigley (Oxford, 2007), pp. 117–134.

'Alexander and Asia: Droysen and Grote.' In Memory as History: The Legacy of Alexander in Asia, edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray (New Delhi, 2007), pp. 89–102.

'Greek, Latin, and the Indian Civil Service.'  In The Cambridge Classical Journal: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, vol. 51 (2005), pp. 35–71. Also published in British Classics outside England: The Academy and Beyond, edited by Judith Hallett and Christopher Stray (2009).

'Greater Rome and Greater Britain.' In Classics and Colonialism, edited by Barbara Goff (London, 2005), pp. 38–64.

'Hellenism and Empire: Reading Edward Said.' In parallax, vol. 9, no. 4 (2003): 88–97.

'Plutarch and the Return of the Archaic.' In Flavian Rome: Culture, Image, Text, edited by A. J. Boyle and W. J. Dominik (Leiden, 2003), pp. 369-389.

 

Series

Phiroze Vasunia is the general editor of Ancients and Moderns, a book series jointly published by I. B. Tauris and Oxford University Press (USA).  Please click on http://www.ancientsandmoderns.com/ for further details.