Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature

Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Lecturer in Classics and Liberal Arts, University of Bristol, Edith Hall, Professor of Classics, University of Durham

Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha is a Lecturer in Classics and Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol. Previously, Connie was the Drapers’ Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She studied Classics at Oxford, Comparative Literature at Cambridge, and completed her doctorate on syncretic uses of Graeco-Roman antiquity in Northeast-Brazilian popular oral poetry at King’s College, London. She continues to work on both Latin American classical receptions and ancient Greek and Latin literature, with particular interests in orality and popular culture. Connie collaborates with contemporary poets and visual artists in the UK, Brazil, and Mexico, and is translating Mexican poet Pura López Colomé’s collection Via Corporis into English.

Edith Hall, Fellow of the British Academy, took up a Chair in Classics at Durham University in 2022, after holding posts at the Universities of Reading, Oxford, Cambridge, Royal Holloway, and King’s College London. She has published more than thirty books, broadcasts on the BBC, and acts as consultant to professional theatres including the National Theatre, the Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She leads a campaign to increase access to classical subjects within state education. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Athens and Durham Universities, the Erasmus Medal of the European Academy, and Honorary Citizenship of Palermo.