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Academic staff

Name Position and responsibilities Research interests Email
Dr Sam Agbamu Exams officer Latin literature
Roman History
Race in antiquity
Classical Reception
s.agbamu@reading.ac.uk
Professor Emma Aston Professor of Classics
Head of Department
Greek religion
Mythology
Thessaly
Ethnos-identity
Animals in ancient thought
e.m.m.aston@reading.ac.uk
Mrs Jackie Baines Lecturer in Classics
Admissions Tutor
Languages Coordinator
Language Teachers'
CoP
Latin language j.baines@reading.ac.uk
Professor David Carter Professor
Department Director of Teaching and Learning
Greek drama
Greek political thought
d.m.carter@reading.ac.uk
Professor Eleanor Dickey Professor of Classics
International Affairs (including OS students)
Research Leave until August 2026
Greek and Latin languages   
Linguistics           
Literature            
Ancient education
e.dickey@reading.ac.uk
Professor Timothy Duff Professor of Greek
Director of Postgraduate Research
University AHRC Lead

Greek history
Greek prose literature
Greek and Latin Historiography
Greek and Latin Biography
Plutarch
The New Testament

t.e.duff@reading.ac.uk
Dr Andreas Gavrielatos

Lecturer in Classics
Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes

School Employability Co-Lead

Latin Literature
Latin Satire
Seneca
Ancient Onomastics
Multiculturalism – Multilingualism

a.gavrielatos@reading.ac.uk
Dr Christa Gray

Lecturer in Classics

Latin prose narrative
Early Christianity
Ancient oratory and rhetoric

c.m.gray@reading.ac.uk
Dr Doukissa Kamini Lecturer in Classics
Department Director of Academic Tutoring
Ancient Greek Language and Literature
Literary and Textual Criticism
Literary Linguistics
Literary and Political Theory
doukissa.kamini@reading.ac.uk
Professor Rachel Mairs Professor of Classical and Middle Eastern Studies
Research Division Lead

Ethnic identity
Multilingualism
Hellenistic history
Graeco-Roman Egypt
Bactria
Papyrology
Epigraphy
Middle East
r.mairs@reading.ac.uk
Dr Tim Penn Lecturer in Roman and Late Antique Material Culture
Dissertations Coordinator

Roman and late antique archaeology
Board games
Death and burial
Britain
Italy
Egypt
North Africa
Southwest Asia

tim.penn@reading.ac.uk
 Dr Edward Ross Lecturer in Classics Ancient Religion
Hellenistic History
Artificial Intelligence
Buddhism
Bactria
Central Asia
South Asia
East Asia
 
Professor Ian Rutherford Professor of Classics
Library Liaison
Anatolia
Egypt
Religion
Pilgrimage
Theoria
Transculturalism
Origins
Chorality
Greek song
i.c.rutherford@reading.ac.uk
Professor Amy C. Smith Professor of Classics
Curator (Ure Museum)
Research Leave until January 2026
Ancient art
Iconography
Material culture
Art and society
Greek vase painting
Museum studies
Digital Classics
a.c.smith@reading.ac.uk
 

Dr Dimitra Tzanidaki-Kreps

 

Visiting Fellow in Modern Greek in the Centre for Hellenic Studies

   

d.i.tzanidaki@reading.ac.uk

Administrative Staff

Name Position Email
Eva Van Herel Executive Administration Officer eva.vanherel@reading.ac.uk

Student Support Staff ssc.hum@reading.ac.uk

Ure Museum

Name Position Email
Jayne Holly Assistant Curator

jayne.holly@reading.ac.uk
ure@reading.ac.uk

Katharine Clint Learning Coordinator

k.a.clint@reading.ac.uk
ure.education@reading.ac.uk

Emeritus/honorary staff

Name Position Email
Professor Katherine Harloe Visiting Professor k.c.harloe@reading.ac.uk
Prof. Annalisa Marzano Visiting Professor  a.marzano@reading.ac.uk
Professor Matthew Nicholls Visiting Professor m.c.nicholls@reading.ac.uk
Professor Barbara Goff Professor Emeritus b.e.goff@reading.ac.uk