
Dr Arabella Currie’s doctoral research was supervised by Fiona Macintosh and traced the history of Graeco-Celtic negotiations, tracking the difficult angles between Greek and Celt as found in both scholarly and artistic reconstructions from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. She was then awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Exeter to look at the archive of William Golding, and is now working on a book about the novelist’s relationship with the ancient world. Alongside academic research, she works for a heritage charity and is interested in putting classical reception into practice in her own writing.
Arabella published a collection of poetry which draws substantially on the classical world, The Divers (Hurst Street Press, 2016).