Barbara Elizabeth Goff is a Classics Professor at the

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. She specialises in Greek tragedy and its

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; women in antiquity;

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classics and reception of Greek political thought.

Education

Goff undertook her undergraduate degree at

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. She later completed her PhD at the

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Euripides Euripides () was a Greek tragedy, tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to ...

' '' Hippolytus'' supervised by Donald Mastronade, publishing the work as ''The Noose of Words: Readings of Desire, Violence and Language in Euripides' Hippolytus'' in 1990.

Career

Goff's first job was as a

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at King's College Cambridge. She has also worked at the

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, and held a Solmsen Fellowship at the Institute for Humanities at the

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. Goff moved to the

first as a Reader in Classics, subsequently becoming Professor of Classics. She leads modules focusing on ancient drama, ancient Greek language, ancient sport, and sexuality and gender in the ancient world. Goff's work on classical reception has led to lectures and publications on classical education and reception in west Africa, including participation in the founding of the Classical Association of Ghana in 2018.

Research groups and centres

At the

, Goff is a member of the Ancient Literature and Classical Tradition and Reception groups in the Department of Classics. Goff is a member of the Ancient and Modern Imperialisms Network, based in Reading and helps to run the Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network, based in Reading, and is an executive committee member of the Classical Reception Studies Network, based at the

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. Goff is on the international editorial boards of the '' Classical Receptions Journal'' (published by the

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) and of ''Elektra'' (

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) and is on the advisory board of the AHRC project 'Classics and Class', based in

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. She also works with the Iris Project to promote classical education.

Books

* Goff, B. (1990) ''The Noose of Words: Readings of Desire, Violence and Language in Euripides' Hippolytus.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *Goff, B. (ed.) (1995) ''History, Tragedy, Theory: Dialogues on Athenian Drama'' (University of Texas Press) *Goff, B. (2004) ''Citizen Bacchae: women's ritual practice in ancient Greece''. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles *Goff, B. (ed.) (2005) ''Classics and Colonialism. Bloomsbury''. *Goff, B. and Simpson, M. (2007) ''Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone and dramas of the African Diaspora''. Oxford University Press, Oxford. *Goff, B. (2009) ''Euripides: Trojan Women''. Duckworth companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. Duckworth, London. *Goff, B. (2013) '''Your secret language': classics in the British colonies of West Africa''. Classical Diaspora. Bloomsbury Academic, London.

References

External links

Goff discussing her paper 'Niobe of the Nations'
at the 2011 Classical Association conference in Durham {{DEFAULTSORT:Goff, Barbara Living people Academics of the University of Reading Alumni of King's College, Cambridge British classical scholars Women classical scholars Year of birth missing (living people)