Supervisor: Professor Caroline Vout
College: Peterhouse
Thesis title (preliminary): The female body in Roman visual culture
Trumpington Street
Cambridge
Biography:
- 2013-2016: BA (Hons) Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; Homerton College, Cambridge
- 2017: MPhil Classics; Newnham College, Cambridge
- 2018-present: PhD Classics; Peterhouse, Cambridge
I am funded by a Peterhouse Graduate Studentship, and have previously received awards from the Newton Trust, Newnham College, and the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge.
Research Interests
- gender and sexuality
- the body
- visual and material culture
- feminist and interdisciplinary approaches to the ancient world
Other Professional Activities
In 2019/20 I held a Graduate Museum Assistant Bursary at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, during which I integrated analysis of objects from Naukratis, Egypt, into MOCA's new digital catalogue.
I was President of Peterhouse Graduate Society for 2019/2020.
I currently supervise undergraduates at various colleges for preliminary, part I and II papers on Greco-Roman art and archaeology.
Conference and seminar papers
'Designing Women on Roman Funerary Altars', ACE Work in Progress Seminar Series, University of Liverpool: 4th March 2021.
''I Haven't Got a Stitch to Wear': the limits of borrowing Venus' body in Roman sculpture': 'Fashionable Bodies' Seminar Series, Cambridge Body and Food Histories: 26th February 2021.
'Sitting women: a new way of reading gender in wall paintings from Pompeii': Classical Art and Archaeology Seminar, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge: 3rd November 2020.
'A shield for a hand-mirror: Pompeian frescoes of Thetis in Hephaestus' smithy': Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge: 1st May 2020.
'Breast is best: gender and power in images of Pero and Micon': Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge: 31st January 2020.
‘Saxea ut effigies bacchantis: re-evaluating Ariadne in Roman visual culture’: Perspectives of Classical Archaeology 2019 Conference (PeClA), Charles University, Prague: 16-17th December 2019.
‘Fishing for Compliments? Gendering Narcissus and Venus at Pompeii’: Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge: 18th October 2019.
‘Corpse-goddess-doll: ivory figurines from early imperial Italy’: Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge: 26th April 2019.
‘Women on top?’: Richerche a Confronto (RAC), University of Edinburgh: 19th March 2019.
‘A re-examination of the Projecta casket’: Annual Classical Association Conference, University of Leicester: 6-9 April 2018.
