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Department of Classics, School of Humanities, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading,
RG6 6AA

The Department of Classics at Reading is composed of welcoming and passionate leaders in our fields. We are very happy to discuss any aspects of our courses and research with you.

Academic staff
Support staff
Ure Museum
Emeritus/Honorary staff
Graduate teaching assistants

Academic staff

Name	Position and responsibilities	Research interests	Email
Dr Emma Aston	Associate Professor Head of Department	Greek religion Mythology Thessaly Ethnos-identity Animals in ancient thought	e.m.m.aston@reading.ac.uk
Mrs Jackie Baines	Teaching Fellow Admissions Tutor Languages Coordinator Language Teachers' CoP	Latin language	j.baines@reading.ac.uk
Dr David Carter	Professor Head of ISLI	Greek drama Greek political thought	d.m.carter@reading.ac.uk
Professor Eleanor Dickey	Professor International Affairs (including OS students)	Greek and Latin languages Linguistics Literature Ancient education	e.dickey@reading.ac.uk
Professor Timothy Duff	Professor Director of Postgraduate Research	Plutarch Historiography Biography Greek prose literature Greek history	t.e.duff@reading.ac.uk
Dr Lucy Fletcher	Teaching Fellow MA Co-ordinator		l.e.fletcher@reading.ac.uk
Dr Andreas Gavrielatos	Teaching Fellow Dissertations Coordinator Library Liaison		a.gavrielatos@reading.ac.uk
Professor Barbara Goff	Professor Director of Taught Postgraduate Programmes (spring and summer terms) Alumni	Greek tragedy and reception Postcolonial Classics	b.e.goff@reading.ac.uk
Dr Christa Gray	Lecturer Department Director of Teaching and Learning	Early Christian Latin	c.m.gray@reading.ac.uk
Dr Jack Hanson	British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow	Urbanism, computational and quantitative approaches to the humanities and social sciences	j.w.hanson@reading.ac.uk
Professor Katherine Harloe	Professor Exams Officer	Reception studies History of scholarship Neoclassicism Philhellenism Political thought	k.c.harloe@reading.ac.uk
Professor Rachel Mairs	Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies From January 2020, Research Division Leader On leave 2018-Spring 2020	Ethnic identity Multilingualism Hellenistic history Graeco-Roman Egypt Bactria Papyrology Epigraphy	r.mairs@reading.ac.uk
Professor Annalisa Marzano	Professor On leave 2016-20	Ancient economy Trade Roman villas Roman aquaculture Italic Hercules	a.marzano@reading.ac.uk
Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou	Associate Professor Departmental Director of Academic Tutoring	Late antiquity Early Islam Byzantium Economy and society Ancient multilingualism Papyrology Greek epigraphy	a.s.papaconstantinou@reading.ac.uk
Professor Ian Rutherford	Professor	Anatolia Egypt Religion Pilgrimage Theoria Transculturalism Origins Chorality Greek song	i.c.rutherford@reading.ac.uk
Professor Amy Smith	Professor Curator (Ure Museum) IT CoP	Ancient art Iconography Material culture Art and society Greek vase painting Museum studies Digital Classics	a.c.smith@reading.ac.uk
Dr Dimitra Tzanidaki-Kreps	Visiting Fellow in Modern Greek in the Centre for Hellenic Studies	Modern and ancient Greek language and literature Theatre and drama	d.i.tzanidaki@reading.ac.uk
Dr Signe Barfoed	Research Council of Norway Postdoctoral Fellow	Greek cult and religion Ancient Greek pottery Material culture Aitolia Ethnos-identity Mythology Memory and ritual Museum studies	s.barfoed@reading.ac.uk

Support Staff

Name	Position	Email
Nathan Shaw and Jemima Stevens	Student Support Co-Ordinator	ssc.hum@reading.ac.uk

Ure Museum

Name

Position

Email

Jayne Holly

Assistant Curator

ure.education@reading.ac.uk

jayne.holly@reading.ac.uk

Claudina Romero

Education Officer

ure.education@reading.ac.uk

c.romeromayorga@reading.ac.uk

Emeritus/Honorary staff

Name	Position	Email
Professor Jane Gardner	Professor Emeritus	j.f.gardner@reading.ac.uk
Dr Gill Knight	Honorary Fellow of the Classics Department	g.r.knight@reading.ac.uk
Professor Peter Kruschwitz	Visiting Professor	p.kruschwitz@reading.ac.uk
Professor Tessa Rajak	Professor Emeritus	t.rajak@reading.ac.uk

Graduate Teaching Assistants

Name	Email
Mauro Serena	m.serena@reading.ac.uk

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