Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis
Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self
Edited by Vanda Zajko and Ellen O'Gorman
Author Information
Vanda Zajko is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. She has wide-ranging research interests in the reception of classical literature, particularly in the 20th century, and in mythology, psychoanalytic theory, and feminist thought. She has published on a variety of ancient authors including Homer, Aeschylus, and Ovid, and on Shakespeare, Keats, Ted Hughes, Melanie Klein, James Joyce, Freud, Mary Shelley, and Robert Graves. She was co-editor with Miriam Leonard of Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought (OUP, 2006) and with Alexandra Lianeri of Translation and the Classic: Identity as Change in the History of Culture (OUP, 2008).
Ellen O'Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. She works on ancient historiography and its reception, and on historical and psychoanalytic theory. She has published on Livy, Sallust, Tacitus, Ovid, Homer, Lucan, Statius, Flaubert, Freud, and Lacan. She is the author of Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus (2000).
Contributors:
Richard Armstrong (University of Houston)
Marcia Dobson (Colorado College)
Page DuBois (University of California, San Diego)
David Engels (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Erik Gunderson (University of Toronto)
Oliver Harris (The London Consortium)
Bruce King (Vassar College)
Kurt Lampe (University of Bristol)
Vered Lev Kenaan (University of Haifa)
Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina, Columbia)
Ellen O'Gorman (University of Bristol)
Dan Orrells (University of Warwick)
Mark Payne (University of Chicago)
John Riker (Colorado College)
Jeff Rodman (independent scholar)
Gregory Staley (University of Maryland)
Jens de Vleminck (Ghent University and the University of Leuven)
Meg Harris Williams (writer and artist)
Ika Willis (University of Bristol)
Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto)
Vanda Zajko (University of Bristol)