Biography
- MA Classics (2012-2016), St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford
- MPhil Classics (2016-2017), Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
- PhD Classics (2018-), Christ’s College, University of Cambridge
Research
- Ecphrasis and visual-verbal relations
- Philostratus’ Imagines
- Phantasia in rhetoric and philosophy
- Optics and aesthetics
- The historiography of Graeco-Roman art
- Gaze theory
Publications
Key publications:
Bates, A. (forthcoming, 2021). ‘Philostratus Visualises the Philosophical: Imagines 2.23, Hercules furens and the Cataleptic Impression’. American Journal of Philology.
Teaching and Supervisions
Research supervision:
I teach Greek language and reading classes for the Faculty of Classics as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (undergraduate and MPhil); and Greek and Latin language and literature for Christ’s College.
