Diana Spencer

Prof

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I welcome proposals dealing with any of the following:

Latin literature and cultural identity (first centuries BCE/CE)
The city of Rome in ancient and modern literature and culture
Translation in ancient Rome, and translation of Latin texts
Reception of Rome in historical fiction
Current and most recent postgraduates

Miriam Bay (co-supervised with David Hemsoll) – Cultivating Myth and Composing Landscape at the Villa d’Este, Tivoli
Elizabeth Crump (co-supervised with Gareth Sears) – The Discourse of Autocracy in Julio-Claudian Literature
Simon Matravers (co-supervised with Gareth Sears) – Commentary on Valerius Maximus Book IX.1-10. A Discourse on vitia: An Apotreptic Approach (completed 2017)
Anna Thorogood (co-supervised with Gareth Sears) – Translating Troy: Trojan Mythology under the Emperor Nero
Jessica Venner (co-supervised with Gareth Sears) – Subsistence and commercial production in the private gardens of the Roman Empire
Through the Midlands4Cities AHRC Doctoral Training Programme, I also co-supervise students based at partner organizations:

Rebecca Batty – Rivers, Rulers and Romans: How do rivers in Augustan literature reflect the relationship between power and environment? (University of Nottingham)
Benjamin White – The Roman 'porticus': promenading from Republic to Empire (University of Nottingham)

1998 …2024

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