Molly Evangeline Allen holds degrees in Classics and Art History from UC Berkeley, USA, the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Columbia University, USA, where she recently completed her PhD (2017). Her dissertation examined the range of ways that sorrow and grief were expressed through countenance and gesture via different types of mourners (e.g. young, old, male, female) in an attempt to better understand Classical Athenian conceptions and perceptions of death, dying and grief. She is generally interested in the expression of emotion in pre-Hellenistic Greek art as well as the various ways that the deceased are represented in Athenian vase imagery. She has held a number of internships at archaeological museums in the United States and Greece and spends most summers excavating in Cyprus or Greece. She is a regular team member of the Onchestos Excavation Project. Currently she teaches Art History and Classical Languages in New York City and is working to develop her dissertation into a monograph.
Isabella Bossolino is a PhD candidate in Greek Archaeology at the University of Pavia, Italy, currently writing her thesis on two Archaic cemeteries of Kamiros, Rhodes. In 2013, she earned an M.Phil. in Archaeology and Art History from the the Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy, writing a thesis on ‘Malak Vanth: Iconography and Functions’, which in 2014 won the ‘Claudia Maccabruni prize’ for the best archaeology thesis. From 2008 to 2013, she was an alumna at Collegio Ghislieri and also attended classes held at the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, IUSS (Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia) where she discussed her diploma thesis on ‘Neck, Shoulder, Body, Foot. Thoughts on the Anatomy of Vessels’. She was then a graduate student (2014–2016) at the Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici (Graduate school for Cultural Heritage) of the Italian Archaeological School in Athens, where she discussed in 2017 a final thesis on the Iron Age cemeteries of Kamiros. Her primary research interests include Etruscan and Greek art and archaeology, and Early Iron Age Mediterranean iconography and iconology. During her college years, she spent three semesters in Germany: one in Mainz (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität) and two in Munich (Ludwig Maximilians Universität), where she also took part in an exchange program between the faculties of Classics of LMU and of the University of Cambridge. She has taken part in some international conferences, and excavated in Italy (Caverna delle Arene Candide, Finale Ligure; Aquileia; Verucchio) and Greece (Gortyna, Crete).
Nick Brown is a PhD candidate in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, UK. His thesis is on the relationship between sculptures and inscriptions in Archaic Greece. He has a particular interest in the methodological and theoretical challenges inherent in the study of the theme of Word and Image in the classical world, and ancient aesthetics more broadly.
Stephanie Crooks is a fifth-year graduate student in Classics at New York University, USA. She entered the Post-baccalaureate program at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. In 2013, Stephanie completed her MA in Latin and Greek at Villanova University. Since coming to NYU, Stephanie has taught Latin and Classical Mythology, and has taught in the Core Curriculum Program. In addition, Stephanie excavated in the 2010 season of ‘Excavating the Roman Peasant in Tuscany, and has participated in the American Academy at Rome’s summer epigraphy course. In her dissertation, ‘The Poet’s Tomb: Space for Immortality in Augustan Rome’ supervised by Alessandro Barchiesi, Stephanie studies moments in which the Roman elegist imagines his tomb in his verse and argues that this poetic image functions as a vehicle of the poet’s immortality. Stephanie’s dissertation offers an interpretation of the elegiac ‘tomb-trope,’ as seen in the works of Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid, and discusses the ways in which the image of the poet’s tomb directly engages with contemporary philosophical ideas about death and commemoration, actual burial practices occurring at the turn of the 1st c. BCE–CE, and earlier notions about poetic immortality displayed in Hellenistic poetry. In addition to Newman University, some of Stephanie’s preliminary work on this topic has been presented at the University of Virginia, and at New York University.
Julia Doroszewska is a team member in the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Research Project (ERC Advanced Grant) based at Warsaw University, Poland, and the University of Oxford, UK. She studied Classics and Polish studies at the University of Warsaw, where she also obtained her PhD in Classics (2012), after conducting her doctoral studies at the University of Sorbonne, France, and Indiana University in Bloomington, USA. Her research interests include ancient magic, paradoxography, the Greek and Roman novel, Plutarch and hagiography. She has recently published a monograph on Phlegon of Tralles (The Monstrous World. Corporeal Discourses in Phlegon of Tralles’ Mirabilia, Frankfurt am Mein: Peter Lang, 2016), and papers on various aspects of Greek novel, paradoxography and Plutarch.
Frances Foster is a Senior Teaching Associate in Classics Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. Her research focuses on the writings of Servius in the context of the literature of Late Antiquity. She has published several articles on Servius’s teaching in Classical Quarterly, The History of Education and the Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft. In addition to Late Antiquity, she also works on Classical Reception in children’s and YA literature, where she has particular interests in the presentation of ancient hero culture for young audiences, and on the recurrence of the themes surrounding the land and shades of the dead.
Safari F. Grey is currently pursuing Doctoral studies in Classics, Ancient History, and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her PhD thesis concerns the significance of epithets, names, and forms of address in Homer’s Odyssey. She completed her Masters in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at the University of Wales: Trinity St. David in 2015, with a dissertation on a comparison between the mythical cosmologies of the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey. Safari’s research interests include ancient literature, mythology and religion, with a special focus on representations of the cosmos in these fields. She also teaches Academic Writing Skills for humanities undergraduates at the University of Birmingham.
Juliette Harrisson is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Newman University in Birmingham, UK. Her primary research interests lie in Roman period myth and religion, and in the reception of ancient Greece and Rome in modern popular culture, especially film, television and novels. Her monograph, Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination was published in 2013, and she is also the co-editor of Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World (with Martin Bommas and Phoebe Roy). She has also published papers on the reception of the ancient world in the BBC/HBO series Rome, STARZ’ Spartacus, the BBC adaptation of Robert Graves’ I, Claudius and Star Trek and Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy. In addition to her on-going work on ghost stories and ancient folklore, she is currently working on the reception of Roman Britain on screen and the reception of the ancient world in the works of Terry Pratchett.
Gabriela Ingle studied Archaeology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, where she gained her MA in 2006. In 2008, Ingle completed a two-year course in ‘Conservation and Preservation of Sacred Artefacts and Monuments’ at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow and the University of Technology in Krakow, Poland. After working on several archaeological excavations across Europe, Ingle began her doctorate at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and gained her PhD in 2017 with a thesis entitled ‘The Significance of Dining in Late Roman and Early Christian Funerary Rites and Tomb Decoration’. Ingle has presented widely at multiple international conferences including TRAC 2013 (with the paper ‘Christian Identity in the Vatican Necropolis? The case of the tomb of the Julii’) and TRAC 2017 (with the paper ‘Foreigners in Rome – Evidence for Constantine I’s Military Troops from the Rhine Region and their Local Funerary Customs in the City of Rome’). She specialises in Late Antique visual culture with an emphasis on the decoration of late Roman tombs, specifically the insight which these images provide into the lives of the people who commissioned or produced them.
Janek Kucharski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Among his research interests are Greek tragedy, law and rhetoric, as well as some aspects of the reception of antiquity. He has written a book on revenge in Greek tragedy (in Polish) and an annotated Polish translation of the extant speeches and fragments of Hyperides (including those recently discovered on the Archimedes palimpsest). In addition, he has published papers on Athenian drama, oratory and modern as well as Byzantine receptions of antiquity. He has recently concluded a research project which produced an annotated Polish translation of the extant speeches of Antiphon, Dinarchus and Lycurgus, and currently directs another one, aiming to provide the same for selected speeches of Demosthenes.
Josipa Lulić is a postdoctoral research and teaching fellow in the History of Art department at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her PhD thesis, undertaken at the same University, focuses on the topic of religious art in the Roman province of Dalmatia. She teaches and researches on the theory of art and religion, Roman provincial sculpture, and the cognitive theory of art.