Emily Kneebone
Emily S. Kneebone is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Nottingham. She is best known for her work on the literature and culture of Greece under the Roman Empire, in particular the didactic poet Oppian.
Career[edit]
Kneebone took her BA, MPhil and PhD degrees at Newnham College, Cambridge, before proceeding to a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. After a one-year Lectureship at the University of Edinburgh she worked as Co-Investigator on a research project exploring the cultural history of imperial Greek epic, and as College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, alongside Mary Beard.[1][2] She joined the University of Nottingham in January 2018.[3] She is an area editor (Greek Literature and Culture) of the Literary Encyclopedia,[4], and has co-run a project on migrant literature between antiquity and the present day.[5]
Selected Publications[edit]
- Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic. Cambridge University Press. 2020.
- 'Oppian and Aelian in dialogue'. Philologia Antiqua. 13, 2020: 85-97.
- 'The limits of enquiry in imperial Greek didactic poetry.' In: J. König and G. Woolf, eds., Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 203-230.
- 'Josephus’ Esther and diaspora Judaism.' In: T. Whitmarsh and S. Thomson, eds. The Romance Between Greece and the East. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 165-182.
- 'The poetics of knowledge in Oppian’s Halieutica'. Ramus. 37, 2008: 32-59.
- 'Dilemmas of the diaspora: Josephus Antiquities 11.184-296'. Ramus 36, 2007: 51-77.
- 'Fish in battle? Quintus of Smyrna and the Halieutica of Oppian'. In: M. Baumbach and S. Bär, eds., Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2007. 285-305
References[edit]
- ↑ "A woman's Odyssey - Mary Beard: A Don's life".
- ↑ "The cult of Mary Beard". the Guardian. January 30, 2018.
- ↑ "Emily Kneebone - The University of Nottingham". www.nottingham.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Literary Encyclopedia | Editors". www.litencyc.com.
- ↑ "Winners announced for the Inaugural Arts and Humanities Impact Pilot Fund | Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics". www.mmll.cam.ac.uk.
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