Biography
Dr David Carter is Teaching and Learning Dean with responsibility for Quality. David is the Teaching and Learning Dean working with the Schools of Art and Communication Design; Languages and Literature and the International Study and Language Institute. David co-chairs the University sub-committee on the Delivery and Enhancement of Learning and Teaching as well as leading on a number of University projects including the FLAIR Scheme.
Having read Classics at Cambridge University, David Carter took a PGCE in Music. He spent eight years teaching Classics and a bit of Music in two of the country's leading state secondary schools, finishing as Head of Classics at Watford Grammar School for Boys. During this time he completed a PhD in Greek Literature at the University of Nottingham. He taught for a year at University College London before joining the University of Reading as a Lecturer in Greek in 2004. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011 and awarded a University Teaching Fellowship in 2012. In the same year he became Co-Director of Teaching and Learning (later Associate Dean) in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science. David was appointed Teaching and Learning Dean in 2015.
As a classicist David is best known for his work on political aspects of Greek tragedy, the subject of a book, The Politics of Greek Tragedy (2007) and an edited volume, Why Athens? A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics (2011). He is working on a long-term project to determine the applicability (or not) of modern-rights based theories in Ancient Greek thought.