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Marguerite Johnson

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Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classical Languages, University of Newcastle

Marguerite Johnson researches and teaches Classical Literature and Classical Reception Studies (the impact of antiquity on the post-ancient world). She is particularly interested in the ongoing dialogues between antiquity and modernity.

She was a research collaborator on the ARC Discovery Project, 'Plato's Myth Voice: The Identification and Interpretation of Inspired Speech in Plato,' with colleagues from The University of Newcastle, The University of Sydney and the University of Tasmania.

Marguerite is also interested in various facets of the Humanities in modern contexts, working on theory, art history, interdisciplinarity and practice-based research.

She also has a professional and personal fascination with myths, legends, story-telling, folk beliefs and their traditions.

Marguerite is interested in receiving applications from potential MPhil/PhD candidates to undertake research in her areas of expertise.

For more on Rosaleen Norton, featured in 'A Murky Cauldron,' see http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/the-witch-of-kings-cross.aspx

For more on trigger warnings and teaching works such as Ovid's Metamorphoses, see http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2017/s4644185.htm

Experience

  • –present
    Associate professor, The University of Newcastle

Publications

  • 2016
    Ovid on Cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts, Bloomsbury
  • 2015
    Witches in Time and Space: Horace and Landscapes of Fear, Hermathena
  • 2015
    With H. Tarrant, Fairytales and Make-believe, or Spinning Stories about Poros and Penia in Plato's Symposium: A Literary and Computational Analysis, Phoenix
  • 2014
    Boadicea and British Suffrage Feminists, Outskirts
  • 2014
    Indigeneity and Classical Reception in The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, Classical Receptions Journal
  • 2013
    Classical Reception Studies: Some Pedagogical Considerations, Classicum
  • 2012
    What to Look for in a Mayor; or Classical Reception in the Coalopolis, Melbourne Historical Journal
  • 2012
    Boudicca, Bloomsbury
  • 2012
    Editor, with H. Tarrant. Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator, Bloomsbury
  • 2008
    With S. Joseph, ‘‘An Orchid in the Land of Technology’: Narrative and representation in Lars von Trier's 'Medea'', Arethusa
  • 2007
    Sappho, Duckworth
  • 2005
    With T. Ryan, Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature: A sourcebook, Routledge
  • 2003
    Catullus 2B: The Development of a Relationship in the passer Trilogy, Classical Journal
  • 1999
    Catullus 37 and the Theme of Magna Bella, Helios
  • 1997
    Martial and Domitian’s moral reforms, Prudentia

Grants and Contracts

  • 2012
    'Plato's Myth Voice: The Identification and Interpretation of Inspired Speech in Plato'
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    ARC Discovery Grant

Research Areas

  • Culture, Gender, Sexuality (200205)
  • Latin And Classical Greek Languages (200305)
  • Comparative Literature Studies (200524)

Honours

Marguerite is the 2017 Australian Book Review Gender Fellow