Karen ní Mheallaigh
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Karen ní Mheallaigh | |
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| Nationality | Irish |
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| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin Johns Hopkins University |
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| Discipline | Classics |
Karen ní Mheallaigh is Professor of Classics and Director of Graduate Studies at Johns Hopkins University with a research specialism in ancient fiction.[1]
Education
Ní Mheallaigh received her BA in 1997 and a PhD in Classics from Trinity College Dublin in 2005.[1]
Career
Ní Mheallaigh taught at Liverpool (2004–2005), Swansea (2005–2007) and Exeter (2007–2020) before taking up her position at The Johns Hopkins University in 2020.[1] She has also held a fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK (2011–2012) and a Marie Curie fellowship at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Denmark (2014–2016), where she worked on the project "Discovering the ancient scientific imagination".[1][2]
Selected publications
Monographs:
- The Moon in the Greek and Roman imagination: selenography in myth, literature, science and philosophy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.[3][4]
- Reading fiction with Lucian: fakes, freaks and hyperreality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.[5][6]
Edited books:
- Cueva, E., G. Schmeling, P. James, K. ní Mheallaigh, S. Panayotakis, N. Scippacercola. 2018. Re-Wiring the Ancient Novel. Volume 2: Roman Novels and other important texts. Ancient Narrative Supplement 24.2. Groningen.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d "Karen ní Mheallaigh". Department of Classics. Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- ^ "Karen ní Mheallaigh". aias.au.dk. Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- S2CID 225166914.
- ^ "The Moon in the Greek and Roman imagination: Selenography in myth, literature, science and philosophy". Classics. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ^ "Reading fiction with Lucian: Fakes, freaks and hyperreality". Classics. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- S2CID 164178710.
- ISSN 1568-3532.
External links
- Roman Society and Hellenic Society Lecture, 'Novel entertainments: from pantomime to the moon': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtapreoMLE
- Review of The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination, Times Literary Supplement: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-moon-in-the-greek-and-roman-imagination-karen-ni-mheallaigh-review-james-romm/
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