Dr Fiona McHardy

 

Job Title: Principal Lecturer Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3733 Email Address: F.Mchardy@roehampton.ac.uk

I am interested in ancient and modern Greek literature, folk poetry, anthropology and culture. I recently completed my monograph about revenge in Greek culture and am currently working on a co-authored volume about gender and violent crime in ancient Greece.

Research Projects Undertaken

Monograph

• Revenge in Athenian Culture (2008, Duckworth), ISBN 9780715635698 (hbk)

Edited Volumes

• Women’s Influence on Classical Civilization F. McHardy & E. Marshall (eds) (2004, Routledge), ISBN 0415309573 (hbk), 0415309581 (pbk)

• Lost Dramas of Classical Athens, F. McHardy, J. Robson & F.D. Harvey (eds) (2005, UEP) ISBN 0859897524

Articles

• 'Violent Femmes: Women and Revenge in Athenian Tragedy', Pegasus 40 (1997) 22-27.

• 'Women’s Influence on Revenge in Ancient Greece', in F. McHardy & E. Marshall (eds) Women’s Influence on Classical Civilization (2004, Routledge) 92-114.

• 'From Treacherous Wives to Murderous Mothers: Filicide in Tragic Fragments', in F. McHardy, J. Robson & F.D. Harvey (eds) Lost Dramas of Classical Athens (2005, UEP) 129-50.

• 'The Trial by Water in Greek Myth and Literature' (2008, LICS 7.1, 1-20) -http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/lics/2008/200801.pdf

Reviews

• Review of D. Mastronarde Euripides: Medea (2004, Hermathena 176, 75-6), ISSN 00180750

• Review of O. Taxidou Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning (2005, Classical Review 55, 418-19), ISBN: 0748619879

• Review of B. Goward Aeschylus: Agamemnon (2006, BMCR 2006.02.48)

• Review of R. Hall Sternberg (ed.) Pity and Power in Ancient Athens (2006, JCT 9, 32)

• Review of M. Kitts Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society (2006, Classical Bulletin 82, 225-7), ISSN: 0009-8337

Miscellaneous

• 'Apollodoros', 'Arrian', 'Chios', 'dreams', 'ephetai', 'Eurydice', 'guardianship', 'Herodas', 'Hipparchia', 'incest', 'inheritance', 'kinship', 'Lycophron', 'Pelopidas', 'Philetas', 'Thasos', 'Theokritos' entries in The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization (2006, CUP), ISBN-13: 9780521483131 / ISBN-10: 0521483131

• 'Greco-Roman Adultery', 'Greco-Roman Bride' and 'Greco-Roman Bridegroom' entries in the Encylopedia of the Bible and its Reception (2008, de Gryter, Berlin).

• Roundtable Discussion organiser 'Ancient Emotions - Did the Ancients Feel Like We Do?' American Philological Association Annual Meeting in Montréal, 2006

• Roundtable Discussion organiser 'Teaching Rape' Classical Association Annual Meeting in Glasgow, 2009

Case Studies

• ‘Group Debates as a Form of Assessment’ case study for the CTEL project, HEA Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology (2009)

• 'Teaching the Language of Employability to Classical Civilisation Students' co-authored with Rosemary Barrow, Charlotte Behr, Susan Deacy and Kathryn Tempest, http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/archive/3226 (2009)

• ‘Embedding Employability into a Classics Curiculum’ co-authored with Rosemary Barrow, Charlotte Behr, Susan Deacy and Kathryn Tempest in Arts and Humanities in HE: an international journal of theory, research and practice 9.3, (forthcoming 2010)

Membership of professional bodies

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Classical Association of England and Wales
(Council member)

Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
(Council member and Schools' sub-committe member)

CUCD
(Standing Committee member and CUCD Bulletin editor)

American Philological Association
(Member)

Teaching Expertise

I teach the following modules:

• Ancient Greek 1

• Ancient Greek 2

• Ancient Greek 3

• Ancient Greek 4

• Ancient Greek 5

• Ancient Greek 6

• Homer and the Epic Cycle

• Violence and Law in Ancient Greece

• Gender and Crime in Ancient Greece

Undergraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Classical Civilisation

Postgraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Historical Research

Other courses taught at Roehampton:

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