Biography
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.
Publications
- Bateman, C., Mercer, K., Morris, A.F., Rodda, M.A., & Vogel, H. Forthcoming 2026. Disability Activism in and out of the Academy: Classical Studies, Pedagogy and Practice. Routledge
- Cugini, E., Hardwick, A., & Rodda, M.A. Forthcoming 2026. “Fusing itself together in the darkness: Queer flesh and inheritance horror in Darkest Dungeon.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, special issue on “Configurations of the Creepy”
- Ryan, C., Alonso, J., Bristow, C., & Rodda, M.A. 2025. “Content and trigger warnings: perspectives from Classics education.” CUCD Bulletin 54
- Rodda, M.A., and McGillivray, B. 2024. “Computational Valency Lexica and Homeric Formularity.” Journal of Greek Linguistics, 24: 264-289. https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02402003
- Rodda, M.A. 2024. “Antoine Meillet et la langue homérique: Au-delà du «Parryisme».” Études de lettres 322: 43-72
- Rodda, M.A. 2023. “Becoming the octopus: Three variations on a metaphor.” TAPA 153 (2): 315-323
