Research
WINTER 2020 TALKS & RESOURCES
Feb. 7, 2020: Hannah Silverblank,
"Forging Family: Thetis, Hephaistos, and Queer Kinship in Homer's Iliad" (SLIDES)
Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020: Hannah Silverblank & Marchella Ward
"Why does Classics need disability studies?"
Talk @ Cambridge University, King's College
Event organized by the disabled students union
Handout | Large print handout
Further Reading on Classics & Disability Studies
Interested in attending? Email access questions and requirements to:
Feb. 7, 2020: Hannah Silverblank,
"Forging Family: Thetis, Hephaistos, and Queer Kinship in Homer's Iliad" (SLIDES)
Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020: Hannah Silverblank & Marchella Ward
"Why does Classics need disability studies?"
Talk @ Cambridge University, King's College
Event organized by the disabled students union
Handout | Large print handout
Further Reading on Classics & Disability Studies
Interested in attending? Email access questions and requirements to:
- Cecily Bateman (event organiser): cb970@cam.ac.uk
- Hannah Silverblank: hannahsilverblank@gmail.com (Speaking via Skype)
- Marchella Ward: marchella.ward@worc.ox.ac.uk (Speaking in Person)
Research Interests:
- archaic and classical greek poetry
- classical mythology
- disability studies
- ancient greek religion
- classical reception
- English language poetry
- monster studies
- posthumanism
- animal studies
- translation theory
- ancient music and musicology
- popular culture
- queer theory
Current & Ongoing Projects:
Publications, Reviews, and Research
Seeds of Future Projects
- Monstrous Soundscapes: Listening to the Voice of the Monster in Greek Epic, Lyric, and Drama (monograph, full draft under review with an academic publisher)
- The Hands and Feet of Hephaistos: Divine Disability in Greek Religion (monograph, early stages of research)
- 'Looking Back at Orpheus: Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy as a Queer Re-reading of Ovid's Orpheus', in progress
- ‘Disability Studies, Classical Reception, and the Now’ (co-authored with Marchella Ward), in progress
- ‘Geryon and Hephaistos: Classical Figurations of Eros and Abjection in Anne Carson’s Red Doc> and Decreation’ (accepted contribution for proposed volume, Anne Carson/Antiquity, edited by L. Jansen; currently under review), in progress
- ‘Forging Thetidean Bonds: Hephaistos’ Chosen Family in Iliad 18’ (accepted contribution for proposed volume, The Staying Power of Thetis: Allusion, Interaction, and Reception from Homer to the 21st Century, edited by A. Khoo, D. Wright, G. Vos, and M. Paprocki; under review by De Gruyter, Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes Series, publication date set for 2021), in progress
Publications, Reviews, and Research
- 'Singing, Cursing, Blessing: The Sonic Transformation of Aeschylus' Erinyes', forthcoming 2020
- 'Sensing Aeschylus' Furies 'from the sleep side', forthcoming 2020
- 'Anne Carson's Lyric Temporalities: Desire and Immortality in the Fragments of Sappho and Stesichoros', forthcoming 2020, A Companion to Greek Lyric (ed. Laura Swift, Blackwell-Wiley)
- 'Calling Homer's Sirens', (2018), in Making Monsters (eds. Emma Bridges and Djibril Al-Ayad, Future Fire Publishing) - PDF of chapter available here
- Review of Voice and Voices in Antiquity (2017), BMCR
- 'Spectral Presences and Absences in Anne Carson's Antigonick' (PDF) (Logeion 2014)
Seeds of Future Projects
- 'The Artist Formerly Known as Odysseus': Dancing with Homer in Prince's Gram Slam Ulysses' (early stages of research)
- 'More News from No Man: Musical mythos in the work of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' (early stages of research)