Karen ní Mheallaigh is Professor of Classics and Director of Graduate Studies at

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with a research specialism in ancient fiction.

Education

Ní Mheallaigh received her BA in 1997 and a PhD in Classics from

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

in 2005.

Career

Ní Mheallaigh taught at

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(2004–2005),

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(2005–2007) and

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(2007–2020) before taking up her position at The Johns Hopkins University in 2020. She has also held a fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK (2011–2012) and a Marie Curie fellowship at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Denmark (2014–2016), where she worked on the project "Discovering the ancient scientific imagination".

Selected publications

Monographs: * ''The Moon in the Greek and Roman imagination: selenography in myth, literature, science and philosophy''. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. * ''Reading fiction with Lucian: fakes, freaks and hyperreality''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Edited books: * Cueva, E., G. Schmeling, P. James, K. ní Mheallaigh, S. Panayotakis, N. Scippacercola. 2018. ''Re-Wiring the Ancient Novel. Volume 2: Roman Novels and other important texts''. Ancient Narrative Supplement 24.2. Groningen.

References

External links

* Roman Society and Hellenic Society Lecture, 'Novel entertainments: from pantomime to the moon': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtapreoMLE * Review of ''The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination'',

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