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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:
  • 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) ​
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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
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Current & Ongoing 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)
 
  • 'Dangerous Fugues: Sirens, Divas, and the Dangerous Voice' (2012), Margin​

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)
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