Karen ní Mheallaigh
NationalityIrish
Academic background
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
Johns Hopkins University
Academic work
DisciplineClassics

Karen ní Mheallaigh is Professor of Classics and Director of Graduate Studies at Johns Hopkins University with a research specialism in ancient fiction.[1]

Education

Ní Mheallaigh received her BA in 1997 and a PhD in Classics from Trinity College Dublin in 2005.[1]

Career

Ní Mheallaigh taught at Liverpool (2004–2005), Swansea (2005–2007) and Exeter (2007–2020) before taking up her position at The Johns Hopkins University in 2020.[1] 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".[1][2]

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.[3][4]
  • Reading fiction with Lucian: fakes, freaks and hyperreality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.[5][6]

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.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Karen ní Mheallaigh". Department of Classics. Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  2. ↑ "Karen ní Mheallaigh". aias.au.dk. Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  3. ↑ ní Mheallaigh, Karen (2020). The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination: Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108685726. ISBN 978-1-108-48303-2. S2CID 225166914.
  4. ↑ "The Moon in the Greek and Roman imagination: Selenography in myth, literature, science and philosophy". Classics. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  5. ↑ "Reading fiction with Lucian: Fakes, freaks and hyperreality". Classics. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  6. ↑ Kim, Lawrence (2016). "(K.) Nì Mheallaigh Reading Fiction with Lucian. Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 305. £65./$99. 9781107079335". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 136: 211–212. doi:10.1017/S0075426916000343. ISSN 0075-4269. S2CID 164178710.
  7. ↑ Publisher, The (26 November 2018). "Frontmatter". Ancient Narrative: I–VII. ISSN 1568-3532.


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