Karen ní Mheallaigh is Professor of Classics and Director of Graduate Studies at
Johns Hopkins University with a research specialism in ancient fiction.[1]
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
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abcd"Karen ní Mheallaigh". Department of Classics. Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
^"Karen ní Mheallaigh". aias.au.dk. Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. Retrieved 20 January 2022.