Judith Mossman is
Pro-Vice Chancellor for Arts and Humanities and
Professor of Classics at
Coventry University. She was the President of the
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (2017–20).
Career
Mossman was educated at
Woldingham School, before reading
Classics
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...
at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
She received a
D.Phil from Oxford University for a thesis entitled ''Euripides' Hecuba: A Re-evaluation, With Special Reference to Dramatic Technique''. She held a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church and taught at
Trinity College Dublin before moving to the
University of Nottingham in 2004.
Mossman was appointed to Coventry University in 2017. She was a governor of
Woldingham School from 1990 to 1993.
In 2017 Mossman was elected president of the
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, having previously been chair of the
Joint Association of Classical Teachers
The Joint Association of Classical Teachers (JACT) was a UK organisation for the encouragement of the teaching of Classics in schools and universities. It was merged into the Classical Association with effect from 2 January 2015. The JACT Summer ...
(JACT) Classical Civilisation Committee. Having held the latter role, in 2011 she wrote to the Parliamentary
Education Select Committee, urging that Classical Civilisations be included among the humanities subjects deemed acceptable for the
English Baccalaureate.
Mossman specialises in Greek literature in the fifth century BC and the second–third centuries CE.
Her work on Euripides'
Hecuba has been praised for its "integrity" and "balance", and described as "stimulating and thought-provoking." She is a passionate advocate for the arts.
In November 2019, Mossman delivered the Nineteenth Dorothy Buchan Memorial Lecture in Ancient History at the
University of Leicester. Her title was "At Home in Chaironeia: Domestic Detail in Plutarch". She gave the keynote presentation at the
Women's Classical Committee Annual General Meeting, 24 April 2020.
Her title was "Grass roots, Green shoots...is everything in the garden lovely?"
She was the third woman to hold the position of president of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, succeeding Professor
P. E. Easterling
Patricia Elizabeth Easterling, FBA (née Fairfax; born 11 March 1934) is an English classical scholar, recognised as a particular expert on the work of Sophocles. She was Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge from 1994 to 2001 ...
(1996–1999) and Professor
Dorothy Tarrant (1954–1956). She is currently vice-president of the Society.
Selected publication
* 2001. "Women's speech in Greek tragedy: the case of Electra and Clytemnestra in Euripides' Electra", ''Classical Quarterly'', 51(2), 374–384.
* 2005. "Women's Voices". In: Gregory, J (ed.), ''A Companion to Greek Tragedy Oxford''. Blackwell. 352–65.
* 2005. "Taxis ou barbaros: Greek and Roman in Plutarch's Pyrrhus", ''Classical Quarterly'', 55 (2), 498–517.
* 2007. 'Plutarch and English Biography', ''Hermathena'', no. 183 (2007) 75-100
* 2011. ''Euripides, Medea'' (Classical texts). Aris and Phillips.
* 2012. "Women's Voices in Sophocles". In: Markantonatos, A. (ed.) ''The Brill Companion to Sophocles''. Brill. 491–506.
* 2016. "Shakespeare and the Classics", ''Omnibus'' 72, 1–3.
References
External links
Why Study Plutarch with Judith Mossman* Coventry University Staff Profile Page: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/judith-mossman
Website for the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
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Living people
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Academics of the University of Nottingham
British women academics
British classical scholars
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women classical scholars
Academics of Coventry University
British women non-fiction writers