Dr Mar Rodda
- Assistant Professor in Greek and Latin Language Teaching
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About
Mar attended the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, before they moved to the UK, first to Durham for a year and then to Oxford. They hold a DPhil in Classical Languages and Literature from Oxford Classics, supervised by Prof. Philomen Probert, and have worked for Regent's Park, University College, and most recently Merton, where they were the Leventis Early Career fellow in Ancient Greek.
Research
Mar's main current research focus is on the interactions of disability, masculinity, and gender in Greek literature under the Roman empire. Their doctoral thesis was a quantitative study of formulaic variation in early Greek hexameter poetry. They maintain an active interest in the dialogue between current linguistics approaches (especially Discourse Analysis and Construction Grammar) and traditional philology, as well as in Hellenistic epic and Greek theatre.