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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 17:19:09 +0000 (GMT)
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Subject: Chair of Greek
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UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
HENRY OVERTON WILLS CHAIR OF GREEK
in the DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY
Applications are invited from outstanding Hellenists for this endowed
chair, whose past holders have included HDF Kitto, NGL Hammond, John Gould
and Christopher Rowe. No particular field within Hellenic studies is
specified. The successful applicant will be working in a major area of
either Greek History or Material Culture, or Language and Literature, or
Philosophy, or a combination of these. He or she will have a strong
teaching profile, a record of outstanding research, and a planned research
programme for the future. The Department has scored grade 5 in every
research selectivity exercise to date and the successful applicant should
be prepared to make a substantial contribution to its national and
international reputation as a centre of excellence in Classics and Ancient
History; and to provide leadership in all areas or the Department's
activities.
It is hoped that the appointment can be made as soon as possible and that
the successful candidate will be able to take up the appointment not later
than 1st September 1996.
Applications including a cv, with names and addresses of three referees
should be sent, quoting reference E91 to the Personnel Director,
University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TB. Enquiries will
be welcome and these may be addressed to the current Head of Department,
John H Betts, 11 Woodland Rd, Bristol BS8 1TB. Tel (0117) 9287765 (direct
line), 9287764 (Department Office) or 9288678 (fax). He will also be
glad to answer queries about the chair or the department not answered in
these pages. Enquiries may also be directed by e-mail to Christine Hall
(Chris...@bristol.ac.uk).
The University of Bristol
1. Mission Statement
* Academic excellence at the forefront of international research and
higher education
* Independent enquiry which allows staff to pursue their ideas with
rigour and integrity.
* A high quality learning experience which enables students to develop
intellectually and individually
2. Salient Features
* The University of Bristol offer a stimulating academic environment,
with centres of excellence in all of its Faculties.
* The University of Bristol six Faculties:
Arts Medicine
Engineering Science
Law Social Sciences
* It has over 8,000 undergraduate and 2,000 postgraduate students and
1,000 full-time equivalent students on Continuing Education courses.
* It has an annual income of #152 million.
3. Research
* The University of Bristol is a major research University with a
research income in grants and contracts of #33 million per annum
* In the last Research Assessment Exercise 26 of our 45 subjects were
graded 4 (Tnationally excellent in all areasU) or 5 (Tinternationally
excellent in some areas, nationally excellent in the remainderU). No
other university outside Oxford, Cambridge, London and Edinburgh can
equal this.
* It is part of our ethos that education should take place in an
environment of research
4. Financial Research
* The University operates a developed system of financial management
known as the Resource Allocation Mechanism (RAM).
* The virtues of this system are that it allows the Heads of Budget
Centres to exercise financial management and gives incentives to staff
who see increased activity arising from their efforts rewarded by an
increased income to the Budget Centre.
The Faculty of Arts
The Faculty of Arts is the second largest faculty of the University. It
comprises 14 academic departments: Archaeology; Classics and Ancient
History; Drama; Theatre, Film, Television; English; French; German;
Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies; Historical Studies;
History of Art; Italian; Music; Philosophy; Russian; and Theology and
Religious Studies.
The Arts Faculty is strongly committed to collaboration between its
constituents departments and because of its size and comprehensive range
it can offer a wide choice of programmes to both undergraduate and
postgraduate students. The Faculty has approximately 2,000 undergraduates
, 130 postgraduates and 150 academic members of staff. In addition to
their teaching, the academic staff of the faculty are very active in
research, and many departments have built up distinguished reputations for
research excellence.
The Faculty plans to raise it reputation further. It hopes to improve
its research ratings, raise postgraduate members, and substantially
broaden access to its courses. Recent developments aimed at achieving
these plans include the creation of several research centres, including
Philosophy and Public Policy, the study of Cognitive Issues in the Arts,
Medieval Studies and Ancient Philosophy. These centres serve to
strengthen the FacultyUs research output by bringing together new
interdisciplinary groups to explore current research frontiers.
All departments except Music and Drama are houses in a group of
interlinked Victorian villas in Woodland Road. These have been recently
renovated and contain modern lecture theatres, seminar rooms, and 24 hour
computer laboratories. Library facilities are also well provided for
with.the main Univesity Library close at hand.
In April 1994, the faculty opened a new Graduate Centre to house
additional resources and facilities. The centre provides both a good
working environment and a pleasant social centre for arts graduates.
THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY
In addition to the new professor of Greek, the Department will have eleven
full time members of staff (two professors, two senior lecturers and seven
lecturers). A considerable amount of part-time teaching is also bought
in, and postgraduate students provide further teaching assistance. This
complement of teaching staff is supported by an administrator and an
assistant secretary, both full-time; staff may also use the services of a
half-time technical illustrator. The Department operates as a single
administrative unit and cost-centre; departmental meetings include all
teaching and research staff. The headship of the department rotates,
normally on a triennial basis, and there is full consultation of the
Department when appointments to the headship are made. The current head
is John Betts, who is Senior Lecturer; Charles Martindale holds the chair
of Latin; Richard Buxton has recently been promoted to a personal chair in
Greek Language and Literature. A list of the present members of staff
and their interests is appended.
Colleagues in the Department of Archaeology are added at the end of that
list. The two departments at present share the same premises and were,
until 1995, constituted as a single Department of Classics and Archaeology.
The division into two is intended to allow each department scope to
develop in new directions but has no immediate effect on the degrees
taught by them or on the range of courses available within those degrees.
The two departments co-operate in the teaching of the history and
material culture of the ancient world.
The Department's national and international standing is high in all the
main areas of its activity: Greek drama and myth; Latin literature;
ancient history, philosophy, and art; and the reception of classical
literature and ideas in later European culture. Traditional approaches
are combined with an openness to recent developments in literary theory
and historiography and in the study of culture and society. This
interest in fresh and, particularly, interdisciplinary approaches is
reflected in the well-established departmental Research Seminar. A major
international colloquium on myth is planned for 1996. There is a
three-year research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, on Receptions
of Rome in the 19th and 20th centuries, involving a series of one-day
seminars and culminating in a major publication and an exhibition in the
City Museum and Art Gallery: "Images of Rome". The Department is
committed to - and to a great extent takes the initiative in - cultivating
interdisciplinary links within the Faculty of Arts through joint
undergraduate courses, shared postgraduates including the Classical
Heritage MA, through a regular Literary Theory Seminar, and through the
University's Centre for the Classical Tradition.
It is the Department's intention not only to build on its current
strengths but also, by appointment to this chair and as a result of recent
new appointments, to create new strengths, thereby consolidating its
position as one of the most important and exciting centres for the study
of classical antiquity. Over the past few years young scholars have
joined the Department and, following the recent appointment of three of
its more senior members to chairs in other universities, it has maintained
that strategy of continued renewal by again appointing promising scholars
at the start of their careers.
The Department's success reflects a sound financial position, based on its
research rating and on its student intake. It admits about 60
undergraduate students each year: these numbers are large enough to
produce a valuable diversity of background and interest; Junior Year
Abroad students from USA and European students, choosing to take their
degrees here or to study for one year under a well-established Erasmus
scheme, enhance that diversity; mature students are particularly
encouraged. New courses introduced over the past few years include
single honours in Ancient History, joint honours in English and Latin, and
Classics or Classical Studies with study in Continental Europe (under the
Erasmus scheme).
New taught MAs have also been introduced in Ancient History, in Classical
Literature and Civilisation, and in Classical Heritage. There is a
steadily increasing number of postgraduate students (currently over 20)
taking both the taught MAs and higher degrees by research. They benefit
from the new Arts Faculty Graduate Centre which provides seminar rooms and
the latest computing facilities; the Faculty has a Dean of Graduate
Students and the Department, which accounts for a considerable proportion
of the Faculty's graduates, has its own Graduate Officer. The aim is to
increase graduate numbers.
The Department's new course developments, particularly in the teaching of
Ancient History and in the ab initio teaching of ancient languages, are
designed to take account of changes in the pattern of undergraduate
applications. The single honours course in Classics has been revised to
make it more accessible to students with A-level in only one of the
ancient languages. Single honours in Classical Studies (which at Bristol
includes study of either Latin or Greek throughout) is well-established
and attracts excellent students, who are encouraged in the belief that
they are engaged in a different (and in no way inferior) kind of academic
study from those studying Classics.
Staff are expected to create new course-units within the overall
structure. These are very often based upon their latest research
interests; for it is part of the Department's philosophy that teaching and
research are both enhanced by the linkage. One of the Department's
distinctive features is that all courses in the student's final year are
taught in small seminar groups (7-14 per group) where staff normally work
within the area of their own research. Besides participating in three
such seminars, final-year students also produce a dissertation. All
members of staff, irrespective of their status, are expected to take their
share of administrative and pastoral work.
The degree courses currently in place in the Department are as follows:-
BA
Ancient History
Classical Studies
Classical Studies with study in Continental Europe (4-year degree)
Classics
Classics with study in Continental Europe (4-year degree
English and Latin
French and Latin (4-year degree)
Greek and Philosophy
MA (1-year degree, taught courses and thesis)
Ancient History
Ancient Philosophy
Classical Heritage
Classical Literature and Civilisation
MLitt or PhD (by research).
Students on taught degree courses may take a limited number of
course-units in other departments; and students from other departments may
take units in Classics and Ancient History. All our courses are fully
modularised and at present organised in two semesters, each of fifteen weeks.
A high premium is placed on all colleagues' research and publication
programmes; there is a well-established system of one-semester study leave
in the Department, as well as a University scheme which can allow a full
year. The Faculty has a fund which supports individuals' research; and
another which subsidises attendance at conferences. Members of the
Department have maintained an excellent record for attracting outside
research funds.
Within the Faculty (and beyond) the Department has a high profile for its
interdisciplinary activities through its joint degrees, through the
Leverhulme Project, through its regular interdisciplinary Departmental
Seminar, through a faculty-wide Literary Theory Seminar, and through the
Centre for the Classical Tradition.
The Department is housed in a distinct area within the Faculty of Arts
complex in Woodland Road. The basis of the complex is a row of spacious
Victorian villas which provide staff rooms, many of them large enough to
accommodate seminar groups of up to 10 students. The villas are linked
at the rear by an imaginative modern development which includes smaller
staff rooms, class rooms and lecture theatres and both staff and student
common-rooms. The University Library, which has a good collection of
books and periodicals, is a short walk from the Department. The Faculty
Graduate Centre is next door but one. All members of the Department are
supplied with computer facilities, which are completely networked and
continually upgraded.
TEACHING STAFF
Duncan G N BARKER, AM (Chicago), MA, PhD (Cantab), Teaching Fellow in
Classics and Ancient History (1994-5). His teaching and research interests
are in social and cultural history, literature and the visual arts; he has
written on the golden age and has in preparation a book on the symbolic
roles of gold at Rome.
John H BETTS, BA (London), FSA, Senior Lecturer in Classics, Head of
Department. His interest in later Bronze Age Crete and Greece, especially
gem-engraving, is represented by Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen
Siegel, vol 10 (1980) and vol 11 (1988). He teaches Greek Art, Greco-Roman
Comedy and Hellenistic literature, and is the founder and General Editor
of the Bristol Classical Press.
Richard G A BUXTON, MA, PhD (Cantab.), Professor of Greek Language and
Literature. His teaching and research interests are in Greek drama,
poetry, and mythology. His book Persuasion in Greek Tragedy: a Study of
Peitho appeared in 1982 and his Greece & Rome 'New Survey' Sophocles in
1984 (new edition 1995). His articles include items on blindness in myth
and wolves and werewolves in Greek thought. He revised the Macropaedia
article 'Myth and Mythology' for Encyclopaedia Britannica; and his book
Imaginary Greece: the Contexts of Mythology was published by Cambridge
University Press in 1994.
Catharine H EDWARDS, MA, PhD (Cantab.), Senior Leverhulme Research Fellow
in Classics and Ancient History. Her research interests lie in Roman
cultural history and Rome in nineteenth-century Britain and she is
currently working on representations of the city of Rome in Latin
literature. Her book The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome was
published by Cambridge University Press in 1993.
Thomas JOHANSEN, MA, PhD (Cantab), Lecturer in Classics and Ancient
Philosophy (from 1995). His research interests are in Ancient Philosophy
and Greek Literature. He is currently completing a book on the sense
organs in Aristotle.
Duncan F KENNEDY, MA (Trinity College, Dublin), PhD (Cantab.), Senior
Lecturer in Classics. His research interests lie in Latin Literature,
Medieval Latin, modern responses to the Roman world, critical and
discourse theory, Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Lucretius. He has
written articles on Virgil, the Appendix Vergiliana, Horace, Propertius
and Ovid, and is author of The Arts of Love: Five Studies in the Discourse
of Roman Love Elegy (Cambridge University Press, 1993). He is currently
working on a book on Lucretius and the rhetoric of natural science.
Charles A MARTINDALE, MA, BPhil (Oxon.), PhD (Bristol), Professor of Latin
. He is author of John Milton and the Transformation of Ancient Epic
(Croom Helm, 1986) and Redeeming the Text; Latin poetry and the
hermeneutics of reception (CUP, 1993); and co-author of Shakespeare and
the Uses of Antiquity (Routledge, 1990). He has edited collections of
essays on the reception of the three major Augustan poets: Virgil and his
Influence (Bristol Classical Press, 1984); Ovid Renewed (CUP, 1988); and,
with David Hopkins of the Bristol English department, Horace Made New
(CUP, 1993); he has contributed a chapter to The Legacy of Rome: A New
Appraisal (OUP, 1992). His interests include Latin poetry, the Classical
tradition, and theoretical issues especially those concerning reception.
He is currently directing a 3-year Leverhulme sponsored project
'Receptions of Rome in the 19th and 20th centuries'; and editing The
Cambridge Companion to Virgil and Nicholas Rowe's translation of Lucan's
Pharsalia.
Earl I McQUEEN, MA, MLitt (Cantab.), Lecturer in Classics and Ancient
History. His research is on Greek history, especially Philip & Alexander
and the Hellenistic Age. His publications include papers on ancient
biography and on the Peloponnese in the reign of Alexander, an edition of
Demosthenes' Olynthiacs (1986), and a translation and commentary on
Diodorus Siculus Book 16 (1995), both for Bristol Classical Press.
Neville D G MORLEY, MA, PhD (Cantab), Lecturer in Ancient History. His
research interests are in ancient economic history, the city of Rome and
historiography. His book Metropolis and Hinterland: the city of Rome and
the Italian economy will be published by Cambridge University Press in 1996.
Ellen C O'GORMAN, BA (Dublin), MA (Bristol), Lecturer in Classics. Her
teaching and research interests are in the narratives of Roman
historiography and oratory. Her publications include articles on the Roman
representation of foreign lands and peoples and of the influence of epic
on historical narratives. She is currently working on a study of Tacitus'
Annals.
Christopher J ROWE, MA, PhD (Cantab.), Henry Overton Wills Professor of
Greek. He will be leaving to take up the Chair of Greek in the University
of Durham and a new Professor of Greek will be appointed during 1996.
Onno M van NIJF, MA (Leiden), PhD (Amsterdam), Teaching Fellow in Ancient
History (1994-6). His research interests lie in social-economic and
cultural history of the Greek polis in the Hellenistic and Imperial
periods and in Greek epigraphy. He is (with F Meijer) author of Trade,
Transport and Society in the Ancient World (Routledge, 1992).
Sitta V I A von REDEN, MA (Berlin), PhD (Cantab.), Lecturer in Ancient
History and Classics (on research leave 1994-6). Her research interests
lie in economic history in cross-cultural perspective, social anthropology
and Greek social history. She has published articles on cultural economics
in British and German journals, contributed a chapter to Reciprocity in
Ancient Greece (OUP) and is author of Exchange in Ancient Greece
(Duckworth 1995). She is currently working on comparative monetary history
in three Roman provinces (Egypt, Gaul and Asia Minor).
Jonathan WALTERS, MA (Oxon), PhD (Cantab.), Teaching Fellow in Roman
History and Latin Literature (1993-6). His research interests are in
social and cultural history, and in the areas of gender and sexuality. He
has written on Roman concepts of manhood, and is currently researching
Greco-Roman elite education. He teaches Roman history and Latin literature.
Vanda ZAJKO, BA, PhD (Exeter), Lecturer in Classics. Her teaching and
research interests lie in Greek mythology, tragedy, religion and gender
issues. She has in preparation a book on interrelations between Greek myth
and psychoanalysis.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Richard J HARRISON, MA, , (Cantab.), PhD (Harvard), FSA, Reader.
interests: European prehistory, especially in Iberia.
Mark HORTON, MA, PhD (Cantab.), FSA, Lecturer.
interests:. African, Egyptian Archaeology, Medieval and Ecclesiastical
archaeology of Europe.
Caroline A T MALONE, MA, PhD (Cantab.), MIFA, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology.
interests: Neolithic & Bronze Age Britain; Italian & Maltese prehistory.
Anthony J PARKER, MA, Dip Class Arch, DPhil (Oxon.), FSA, Senior Lecturer
in Archaeology.
interests: archaeology of the Roman Empire, the Bristol area; marine
archaeology.
Simon K F STODDART, MA, (Cantab. and Michigan), PhD (Cantab.), MIFA,
Senior Lecturer.
interests:prehistoric landscape archaeology, Etruscan, Italian & Maltese
archaeology.
Peter M WARREN, BA (Wales), MA, PhD (Cantab.), FSA, Professor.
interests: Crete & Aegean prehistory.
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
FACULTY OF ARTS
CHAIR IN GREEK
Petros Petropoulos
>Vanda ZAJKO, BA, PhD (Exeter), Lecturer in Classics. Her teaching and
>research interests lie in Greek mythology, tragedy, religion and gender
>issues. She has in preparation a book on interrelations between Greek myth
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>and psychoanalysis.
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Petros
Vassilis Kostovassilis
> Tsiavto, isws autn n ereuvntria va mporei va se bon0nsei...dwse basn:
> >Vanda ZAJKO, BA, PhD (Exeter), Lecturer in Classics. Her teaching and
> >research interests lie in Greek mythology, tragedy, religion and gender
> >issues. She has in preparation a book on interrelations between Greek myth
Egw re Petropoule pantws, exw thn ypopsia oti ayth h ereynhtria einai o
typos sou ... Greek myth and psychoanalysis ... :-)
Vassilis