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

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

with a research specialism in ancient fiction.

Education

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

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 ...

in 2005.

Career

Ní Mheallaigh taught at

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(2004–2005),

Swansea Swansea (; cy, Abertawe ) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea ( cy, links=no, Dinas a Sir Abertawe). The city is the twenty-fifth largest in ...

(2005–2007) and

Exeter Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...

(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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