Misplaced Pages

Liz Gloyn

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Classicist

Elizabeth Gloyn is a Reader in Latin Language and Literature at Royal Holloway, the University of London and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research focuses on the intersection between Latin literature, ancient philosophy (particularly Stoicism) and gender studies; as well as topics of classical reception, and the history of women in the field of Classics.

Education and career

Gloyn completed her BA and MPhil at Newnham College Cambridge, and received a PhD from Rutgers (the State University of New Jersey) in 2011.

Between 2011 and 2013, she was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham, before moving to Royal Holloway. Prior to her current appointment as Reader in Latin Languages and Literature in 2020, Gloyn acted as a Lecturer (2013–2018) and a Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway.

Gloyn is also a founding member of the Women's Classical Committee (UK) and served as Administrator from 2015 to 2022; and an Editorial Consultant for the online Companion to The Worlds of Roman Women. She was a trustee of the Classical Association from 2017 to 2022.

Research and select publications

According to Gloyn, her research interests are "pretty broad". She has published widely on topics including Seneca the Younger, classical reception, the history of Classics, and issues of social and familial history within Latin literature more broadly.

She is the author of two books:

  • (2019) Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture, London: Bloomsbury Academic.
  • (2017) The Ethics of the Family in Seneca, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Her other recent publications include:

  • (2019) "We Are What We Keep: The 'Family Archive', Identity and Public/Private Heritage", with Anna Woodham, Laura King, Vicky Crewe and Fiona Blair. Heritage & Society.
  • (2018) "The Ties That Bind: Materiality, Identity and the Life Course in the 'Things' Families Keep", with Anna Woodham, Laura King and Vicky Crewe. Journal of Family History 43.2: 157–176.
  • (2016) "This Is Not A Chapter About Jane Harrison: Classicists at Newnham College, 1882–1922". In Women Classical Scholars. Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly, eds. E. Hall and R. Wyles. Oxford University Press: 153–175.
  • (2014) "Show Me The Way To Go Home: A Reconsideration of Seneca's De Consolatione ad Polybium". The American Journal of Philology135.3: 451-480.
  • (2013) "Reading Rape in Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Test-Case Lesson". Classical World 106.4: 676–681.

Alongside her academic research, Gloyn also writes and publishes in non-traditional formats, including her personal blog entitled 'Classically Inclined'. Publications of this kind include:

  • (2019) 'Invisible barriers keep many academics from the media', WonkHE.
  • (2016) 'Seneca's Guide To Relaxing.' Iris Online.

Media and public engagement

Gloyn has featured in the following print, radio, podcast, and television broadcasts:

  • (2019) Guest interviewee on 'Woman's Hour', BBC Radio 4, interviewed by Jane Garvey.
  • (2019) 'Talking head' for Monsters are Real documentary-short, released as a featurette on the DVD of Godzilla: King of Monsters (Warner Bros.).
  • (2019) Guest interviewee on The History of Ancient Greece Podcast.
  • (2019) Guest interviewee on The Endless Knot.
  • (2018) Interviewed about Stoicism for episode 2 of BBC 4's Hacking Happiness ('Self-Harm Nation').
  • (2017) 'Talking head' for five episodes of Myths and Monsters, a television series for 3DD Productions; released on Netflix UK/US/Canada on 23 December 2017.
  • (2016) Interviewed for article in the Independent, 'Why do bridesmaids all dress the same?', on Roman marriage traditions.

Gloyn has also spoken at several public events, including:

  • (2018) "Lessons in Stoic Leadership from Seneca", Stoicon 2018, London.
  • (2018) "Do Fictional Monsters Reflect Our Reality?", The Royal Institution, London.

References

  1. ^ "Dr Elizabeth Gloyn - Research - Royal Holloway, University of London". pure.royalholloway.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  2. ^ "About me". Classically Inclined. 12 April 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  3. "LinkedIn Profile".
  4. "Committee". WCC-UK. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  5. "THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION - Charity 313371". register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  6. "Academic publications". Classically Inclined. 22 October 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  7. Bloomsbury.com. "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  8. Morgan, Cheryl (30 September 2019). "Tracking Classical Monsters". Salon Futura. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  9. Bracke, Evelien (October 2020). "CLASSICS, MONSTERS AND POPULAR CULTURE - (L.) Gloyn Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture. Pp. x + 228, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Paper, £19.99 (Cased, £65). ISBN: 978-1-350-10961-2 (978-1-7845-3934-4 hbk)". The Classical Review. 70 (2): 521–523. doi:10.1017/S0009840X20000426. hdl:1854/LU-8655041. ISSN 0009-840X. S2CID 216291638.
  10. "The Ethics of the Family in Seneca | Ancient philosophy". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  11. "The Ethics of the Family in Seneca – Bryn Mawr Classical Review". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  12. Reydams-Schils, Gretchen (24 July 2017). "Review of The Ethics of the Family in Seneca". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617.
  13. Star, Christopher (April 2018). "VIEWS OF THE FAMILY IN SENECA THE YOUNGER - (L.) Gloyn The Ethics of the Family in Seneca. Pp. xii + 249, fig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-14547-4". The Classical Review. 68 (1): 97–99. doi:10.1017/S0009840X18000045. ISSN 0009-840X. S2CID 165702743.
  14. Woodham, Anna; King, Laura; Gloyn, Liz; Crewe, Vicky; Blair, Fiona (2 September 2017). "We Are What We Keep: The "Family Archive", Identity and Public/Private Heritage". Heritage & Society. 10 (3): 203–220. doi:10.1080/2159032X.2018.1554405. ISSN 2159-032X.
  15. Gloyn, Liz; Crewe, Vicky; King, Laura; Woodham, Anna (1 April 2018). "The Ties That Bind: Materiality, Identity, and the Life Course in the "Things" Families Keep". Journal of Family History. 43 (2): 157–176. doi:10.1177/0363199017746451. ISSN 0363-1990. PMC 5858636. PMID 29593371.
  16. Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly. Classical Presences. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 27 December 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-872520-6.
  17. Gloyn, Liz (18 September 2014). "Show Me The Way To Go Home - Research - Royal Holloway, University of London". American Journal of Philology. 135 (3): 451–480. doi:10.1353/ajp.2014.0032. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  18. "Reading Rape in Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Test-Case Lesson. - Research - Royal Holloway, University of London". pure.royalholloway.ac.uk. doi:10.1353/clw.2013.0096. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  19. "Classically Inclined". Classically Inclined. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  20. "Invisible barriers keep many academics from the media". Wonkhe. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  21. "Iris Classics Centre at Cheney - Seneca's Guide To Relaxing". eoccc.org.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  22. "Woman's Hour - Teen sex therapy. Surrogacy Laws. Classical monsters. Singer Lisa Simone. - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  23. Godzilla: King of the Monsters- Monsters are Real, retrieved 19 August 2020
  24. Podcast, The History of Ancient Greece-. "**Special Guest Episode on Classical Monsters and Popular Culture w/Liz Gloyn**". Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  25. "Episode 75: Tracking Monsters, with Liz Gloyn". The Endless Knot. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  26. "Hacking History". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  27. Myths & Monsters, retrieved 19 August 2020
  28. Schrier, M. W.; Alverson, B. (18 July 2016). "A Cautionary Tale About a Bridesmaids DRESS". Hospital Pediatrics. 6 (8): 501–503. doi:10.1542/hpeds.2015-0287. ISSN 2154-1663. PMID 27432611.
  29. "Stoicon 2018". YouTube. 8 November 2018.
  30. "Do fictional monsters reflect our reality?". www.rigb.org. Archived from the original on 20 April 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
Categories: