Fiona McHardy is a Professor of

Classics Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

and also the Head of History and Classics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the

University of Roehampton The University of Roehampton, London, formerly Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, is a public university in the United Kingdom, situated on three major sites in Roehampton, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. The University traces its r ...

. In 2003 she started work at Roehampton where she was responsible for building up the BA Classical Civilisation. Her research interests include ancient and modern Greek literature, folk poetry,

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...

and culture. She teaches modules on ancient Greek language, literature and culture.

Career

McHardy completed her PhD at the

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of ...

in 1999. Her thesis was titled ''‘The ideology of revenge in ancient Greek culture: a study of ancient Athenian revenge ethics’''; and she is the author of ''Revenge in Athenian Culture'' (Bloomsbury, 2008). She is an editor with

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and Mark Masterson for the series ''Intersectionality in Classical Antiquity'' (Edinburgh University Press), which focuses on 'intersectional approaches to sexuality and gender in Greco-Roman Antiquity...with a range of other factors including race, ethnicity, class, ability, masculinity, femininity,

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and post-colonial gender studies'. She is currently writing a book on ''Gender Violence in Ancient Greece'', covering such topics as

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, sexual violence, uxoricide and domestic violence. She is a co-editor for ''Classics in and Out of the Academy: Classical Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century'', for Routledge. In 2017, McHardy co-organised an event with Susan Deacy and Katerina Volioti for the Women's Classical Committee UK on 'Bullying and Harassment in UK Classics Departments: Finding Solutions'. McHardy's inaugural professorial lecture, entitled 'Ancient Greek Tiger Mothers', was held on October 8, 2018, at the University of Roehampton.

Selected publications

McHardy is the author of ''Revenge in Athenian Culture'' (Bloomsbury, 2008); and has co-edited the following five volumes: * ''Women's Influence on Classical Civilization'' (Routledge, 2004). * ''Lost Dramas of Classical Athens'' (Exeter, 2005). * ''From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficulty Topics in the Classics Classroom'' (Ohio, 2014). * ''Revenge and Gender from Classical to Renaissance Literature'' (Edinburgh, 2018). * ''Diversity and the Study of Antiquity in Higher Education: Perspectives from North America and Europe'' (Routledge, 2023).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McHardy, Fiona Living people English classical scholars Scholars of ancient Greek history British women classical scholars Academics of the University of Roehampton Alumni of the University of Exeter Year of birth missing (living people)