CRASSH is delighted to announce the appointment of Simon Goldhill (Professor in Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge) as Director of CRASSH from October 2011. He succeeds Mary Jacobus FBA (Grace 2 Professor of English and Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge), who completed a five-year term at the end of 2010-11. Simon Goldhill's appointment coincides with the Centre's move to the Alison Richard Building and its 10th anniversary.

 

Simon Goldhill is Professor in Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College. His research interests include: Greek Tragedy, Greek Culture, Literary Theory, Later Greek Literature, and Reception. His latest book is Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity.