Doukissa Kamini

Email:
doukissa.kamini@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
100
Job title:
Lecturer in Classics

Specialism

Lecturer in Classics

Responsibilities:Department Director of Academic Tutoring

Office

EM G30a

Areas of interest

Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Literary and Textual Criticism, Literary Linguistics, Literary and Political Theory

Postgraduate supervision

I have supervised BA and MA dissertations in ancient Greek literature and language covering topics from the role of literary genre in the formation of literary characters and feminist readings of ancient Greek Epic and Drama to literary linguistics and the history of Greek language and its development in Archaic and Classical Greek literature. I am interested in supervising projects on ancient Greek language and literature, applied literary theory, literary linguistics, and political approaches to ancient Greek literature especially in the Archaic and Classical Greek periods.

Background

I am a Lecturer in Classics teaching modules on ancient Greek language and literature. I am also the Department Director of Academic Tutoring. I received a BA in Classics and an MPhil in Ancient Greek Philology from the University of Athens before moving to the Department of Classics at the University of Reading from which I was awarded a PhD in Classics with a thesis on the politics of language and metapoetics in the story of Orestes in ancient Greek literature. My research covers the intersection among linguistic, literary and political aspects of ancient Greek Epic and Drama, and my research interests revolve around the ancient Greek language and literature, textual and literary criticism, literary linguistics, literary theory, and political theory.

Academic qualifications

BA, MPhil, PhD

Awards and honours

Teaching Excellence Award for Humanities 2024

Various grants for the organisation of conferences and the development of research projects from the ICS and CA from 2018 to present

Professional bodies/affiliations

University of Athens, Institute of Classical Studies in London

Selected publications

Kamini, D. 2019. ‘From a Mythical Exemplum to a Heroic Cult: Orestes as a Representative of Power Play, (Re-)establishment of Political Authority and Expansionism’. New Classicists 3: 30-46.

Kamini, D. 2017. ‘Η συμβολή της στησιχόρειας Ορέστειας στη διαμόρφωση του μύθου του Ορέστη’. In: T. Andrianakis, M. Boltsi, G. Ferentinou, and D. Kamini. Eds. Proceedings of the 8^th Athens Postgraduate Conference (Athens, July 2015). Vol. 3. Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 40-48.

Kamini, D. 2015. ‘The Contribution of the Law of epikleros to the Comic Effect of Phormio’. In: J. Nagyillés, A. Hajdú, G. Gellérfi, A. H. Baroody, and S. Baroody. Eds. Sapiens Ubique Civis: Proceedings of International Conference on Classical Studies (Szeged, Hungary, 2013). Budapest: ELTE Eötvös József Collegium, 67-77.