Jessica M Romney

I completed my PhD in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol in 2015, where I examined the strategies for fashioning group identities in the Greek symposium, now published as Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece. My research examines ancient identity in general, particularly as expressed within archaic and classical literature, and my primary interests lie in how language and literature interact with the societies that produce and use them, and vice versa. In my current research, I examine how food in Archaic and Classical Greece contributes to the construction of geographical space as ‘near’ and ‘far’ as well as how food and drink consumption create social categories that contribute to constructions of civilised/uncivilised and Us/Them.