Judith Mossman is Pro-Vice Chancellor for Arts and Humanities and

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of Classics at

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. She was the President of the

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(2017–20).

Career

Mossman was educated at

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, before reading Classics at

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. She received a

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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 , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

before moving to the

University of Nottingham , mottoeng = A city is built on wisdom , established = 1798 – teacher training college1881 – University College Nottingham1948 – university status , type = Public , chancellor ...

in 2004. Mossman was appointed to Coventry University in 2017. She was a governor of

from 1990 to 1993. In 2017 Mossman was elected president of the

, having previously been chair of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers (JACT) Classical Civilisation Committee. Having held the latter role, in 2011 she wrote to the Parliamentary

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, urging that Classical Civilisations be included among the humanities subjects deemed acceptable for the

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. Mossman specialises in Greek literature in the fifth century BC and the second–third centuries CE. Her work on Euripides'

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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 , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_lab ...

. Her title was "At Home in Chaironeia: Domestic Detail in Plutarch". She gave the keynote presentation at the

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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 (1996–1999) and Professor

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(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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