Elena Theodorakopoulos
Colleges, School and Institutes
Research interests
My current projects are:
- the reception of classical literature and myth in contemporary writing by women, and the translation/adaptation of classical literature by women writers.
- a book on Catullus with particular emphasis on the performative aspects of his work
Past research
I have written on forms of closure in Roman and Hellenistic poetry, on the representation of Rome in film, and on Catullus.
Willingness to take PhD students
Yes
PhD projects
I welcome research proposals on women’s writing and classical reception, and on any aspect of Roman republican or Augustan poetry.
Current supervision:
Elizabeth Cook’s Achilles as a model for feminist reception
Ali Smith, gender, and the reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Research topics I have supervised in the past include:
Tacitus’ Agricola and the politics of fama
Romulus and Numa in Ovid’s Fasti
Speech and Silence in Ovid’s Heroides
Postmodernism and Classical Reception