University of Nottingham

Faculty Member, Classics

Associate Professor of Ancient History

About

My main research interests are in the visual and intellectual culture of imperial Rome, and my recent work has been particularly concerned with exploring cultural differences in perception, aesthetics and sensibilities. My book 'Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome' was published with Cambridge University Press in November 2009 and I am the author of several articles in the field of Roman visual culture (particularly the role of colour on marble sculpture). I am also General Editor (along with Shane Butler, UCLA) of a series of volumes on 'The Senses in Antiquity' for Acumen Publishing.

I also have interests in the reception of the ancient world in modern European culture, and I am editor of 'Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire' (2010, Oxford University Press), a collection of essays examining the interactive relationship between classical ideas and British imperialism from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

As well as pursuing further research on each of these topics, I am also engaged in a long-term research project on the theme of pollution in pre-Christian Roman society, religion and culture, a topic on which I already have a number of articles. I am editor of a volume entitled 'Rome, Pollution and Propriety: Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity', which is based on a conference held at the British School at Rome in June 2007. My next related project will be research towards a book on 'Foul Bodies in Ancient Rome', and I have recently completed an article on 'Obesity, corpulence and emaciation in Roman art', which will be published in PBSR 2011.

I am a member of the British School at Rome's Faculty of Archaeology, History and Literature, and am Editor of the Papers of the British School at Rome.

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