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Academic staff

Name Position and responsibilities Research interests Email
Dr Sam Agbamu Lecturer in Classics / Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Roman Empire
Ideas of 'race' in the Ancient World

s.agbamu@reading.ac.uk
Professor Emma Aston Professor of Classics
Research Division Lead
Greek religion
Mythology
Thessaly
Ethnos-identity
Animals in ancient thought
e.m.m.aston@reading.ac.uk
Mrs Jackie Baines Lecturer in Classics
Admissions Tutor
Languages Coordinator
Language Teachers'
CoP
Latin language j.baines@reading.ac.uk
Professor David Carter Professor
Greek drama
Greek political thought
d.m.carter@reading.ac.uk
Professor Eleanor Dickey Professor of Classics
International Affairs (including OS students)
Greek and Latin languages   
Linguistics           
Literature            
Ancient education
e.dickey@reading.ac.uk
Professor Timothy Duff Professor of Classics
Director of Postgraduate Research
Greek history
Greek prose literature
Plutarch
Historiography
Biography
The New Testament 
t.e.duff@reading.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Fox Lecturer in Classics
Rome, Architecture, Art
a.fox2@reading.ac.uk
Dr Andreas Gavrielatos

Lecturer in Classics
Library Liaison
Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes

a.gavrielatos@reading.ac.uk
Dr Christa Gray

Lecturer in Classics
Department Director of Teaching and Learning

Latin prose narrative
Early Christianity
Ancient oratory and rhetoric

c.m.gray@reading.ac.uk
Dr Doukissa Kamini Lecturer in Classics
Department Director of Academic Tutoring
Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Literary and Textual Criticism, Literary Linguistics, Literary and Political Theory doukissa.kamini@reading.ac.uk
Professor Rachel Mairs Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
Exams Officer

(On Research Leave Autumn 2022)
Ethnic identity
Multilingualism
Hellenistic history
Graeco-Roman Egypt
Bactria
Papyrology
Epigraphy
r.mairs@reading.ac.uk
Dr Tim Penn Lecturer in Roman Culture

Roman and late antique archaeology
Board games
Death and burial
Britain
Italy
Egypt
North Africa
Southwest Asia

tim.penn@reading.ac.uk
Professor Ian Rutherford Professor of Classics
Unit of Assessment Lead
Anatolia
Egypt
Religion
Pilgrimage
Theoria
Transculturalism
Origins
Chorality
Greek song
i.c.rutherford@reading.ac.uk
Professor Amy C. Smith Professor of Classics
Co-Head of Department
Curator (Ure Museum)
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

   

d.i.tzanidaki@reading.ac.uk

Associate Lecturers

Name Modules Email

Ellie Goddard CL2DR - Ancient Drama e.f.goddard@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Edward Ross CL1L1 - Latin 1 e.a.s.ross@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Administrative Staff

Name Position Email
 Eva Van Herel Executive Administration Officer eva.vanherel@reading.ac.uk

Student Support Staff ssc.hum@reading.ac.uk

Ure Museum

Name Position Email
Jayne Holly Assistant Curator ure.education@reading.ac.uk
jayne.holly@reading.ac.uk

Emeritus/honorary staff

Name Position Email
Dr Jack Hanson Visiting Research Fellow j.w.hanson@reading.ac.uk
Professor Katherine Harloe Visiting Professor k.c.harloe@reading.ac.uk
Dr Gill Knight Honorary Fellow of the Classics Department g.r.knight@reading.ac.uk
Prof. Annalisa Marzano Visiting Professor  a.marzano@reading.ac.uk
Professor Matthew Nicholls Visiting Professor m.c.nicholls@reading.ac.uk
Professor Tessa Rajak Professor Emeritus t.rajak@reading.ac.uk
Professor Barbara Goff Professor Emeritus b.e.goff@reading.ac.uk
Dr Claudina Romero Visiting Research Fellow c.romeromayorga@reading.ac.uk