Staff Profile:Dr P Vasunia

Name:

Dr Phiroze Vasunia

Job Title:

Reader

Responsibilities:

Reader in Classics; School Director of Research

Areas of Interest:

• Imperialism and Colonialism
• The Classical Tradition
• Cross-cultural Interaction in Antiquity
• Critical Theory

Research groups / Centres:

Phiroze Vasunia was educated in India and the United States.  He moved to Reading in 2005, after teaching in Los Angeles and Chapel Hill.  He has been a visiting scholar in Oxford and Stanford.  He is the co-ordinator of the international network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms and a member of the international network on the Legacy of Greek Political Thought.  He is also the general editor of Ancients and Moderns, a book series jointly published by I. B. Tauris and Oxford University Press (USA).  In 2011-12, he is teaching Greek 1, Greek History, an MA seminar on Herodotus, and a new undergraduate class on Classics and Critical Theory.

Publications:

Books Authored and Edited
India, Greece, and Rome, 1757-2007, co-edited with Edith Hall (London: Bulletin of the Institute for Classical Studies, supplement volume, 2010).

Classics and National Cultures, co-edited with Susan A. Stephens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 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).

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

Books in Progress
The Classics and Colonial India (under contract to Oxford University Press).

The Oxford Handbook of the Literatures of the Roman Empire, co-edited with Daniel L. Selden (under contract to Oxford University Press).

Articles and Chapters

'Between East and West: Mobility and Ethnography in Herodotus' Proem.'  Forthcoming in History and Anthropology (2012).

Translation of Daphnis and Chloe, by Longus.  In Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion, edited by Helen Morales (Penguin Classics, 2011), pp. 135-210.

'The Comparative Study of Empires.'  Review article in The Journal of Roman Studies, vol. 101 (2011), pp. 222-37.

'Alexander Sikandar.' In Classics and National Cultures, co-edited with Susan A. Stephens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 302-24.

'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.

'The Philosopher's Zarathushtra.' In Persian Responses: Political and Cultural Interaction with(in) the Achaemenid Empire, edited by Christopher Tuplin (Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2007), pp. 239-67.

'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.