The Classics Department welcomes another fantastic new member of staff, Dr. Nikoletta Manioti

We caught up with our new colleague, Nikoletta, and asked her to provide a short biography about her career and research interests:

I have been interested in the ancient world ever since I can remember. I read Classics in my hometown of Thessaloniki and in Florence where I spent a semester as an Erasmus student, before coming to the UK for postgraduate studies at Cambridge and Durham. Since receiving my PhD in 2012 I have held academic positions at St Andrews, King’s College London, and Birkbeck, and most recently I have been a tutor in Classical languages at CityLit.

My research encompasses Augustan and Early Imperial Latin poetry, and follows a cultural-historical approach, which is interested in close readings of the texts against their wider background. I am currently preparing a monograph on sisters, focusing on Latin epic but effectively tracing their literary history across genres from Homer to the Flavians, taking into account all evidence of their ‘real-life’ Roman counterparts. A second monograph will follow, which examines the motif of viewing from above in Latin epic, the topic of my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2014-2017).

I am very excited to be joining the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway where I will be teaching Latin language and Classical literature modules from September 2022.