2014 Convenors

Emily Lord-Kambitsch (UCL)

Emily Lord-Kambitsch is a PhD candidate at University College London. A California native, she completed her B.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her Master of Studies at Oxford, where she pursued her interest in socio-cultural constructs of emotions in ancient Greece and Rome, writing a Master’s dissertation on the healing of dolor in Senecan tragedy and consolatory writing, and working as a research assistant with the Oxford Emotions Project under the direction of Angelos Chaniotis. Currently she is enjoying her work at UCL on emotionality in the reception of the ancient world in the nineteenth-century historical novel and twentieth-century cinema. Her dissertation is provisionally entitled ‘Ancient Emotions in Ben-Hur 1880-1931: A Study of Audience Reception in the United States’.

David Bullen (RHUL)

David is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on the cultural reception of Euripides’ Bacchae, with secondary research interests in the deployment of the Greek myth in popular culture and the representation of LGBT characters in popular performance. He is also the co-artistic director of By Jove Theatre Company, an ensemble of socialist-feminist theatre makers based in London.

William Barton (KCL)

William works on the idea of nature and the environment in Neo-Latin texts (1300-1700). In particular he studies the shifting attitudes towards the mountain as an extreme locus of nature. While researching at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, William is studying for his PhD in Classics at King’s College London. 

Emma Cole (UCL)

Emma is a PhD candidate in the department of Greek and Latin at University College London. Her research focuses on the reception of ancient tragedy in postdramatic, site-specific, and immersive theatre. Alongside her research, she moonlights as a dramaturg and a theatre critic.

Dan Goad (RHUL)

Having completed his BA at Durham University and MA at University College London, Dan is now a PhD candidate in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway. His thesis research is centred on the performance reception of Aristophanes’ Frogs in the English-speaking world. Other research interests include the reception of all aspects of the ancient world on stage and screen. Outside of research Dan works as a freelance popular culture journalist and is a frequent contributor to the website whatculture.com.