The 2025 annual Classics and English lecture will be delivered by Dr Katerina Stergiopoulou (University of Edinburgh), in the Ioannou Centre lecture theatre and online at 2pm on Monday 2 June: "In this paper, I take on recent trends in the study of classical reception that focus on ‘weak links’ (Zerba 2021) or ‘classical absences’ and ‘oblique classicisms’ (Jansen 2022), and consider their possible intersections with questions of gender in the work of American women writers of the last half century, from Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich to Harryette Mullen and Maggie Nelson. I will first examine the ‘occlusion’ of classics in these writers’ work and then turn to its interaction with the feminist and queer discourses also present therein. Is the relationship between the two antagonistic, reparative, indifferent or something else entirely?"
In-person accessibility
The Ioannou Centre lecture theatre is located on the ground floor and the Centre is fully wheelchair accessible; an accessible toilet is located on the ground floor and on the first floor. Please see the online Access Guide for more details about the building's accessibility. Feel free to contact the APGRD with any queries.
Join us online
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