Ballot Archive

18 Feb 2021

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Susan Jane Deacy

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA PhD University of Wales Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellow

Profession or occupation

Professor of Classics, University of Roehampton

Grounds for election

Susan Deacy is a Classicist specialising in ancient Greek religion, mythology, history, gender and sexuality. Her books include ‘Athena’ and highly influential co-edited volumes on ‘Rape in Antiquity’ and ‘Athena in the Classical World’. She has developed distinctive research relating Classics to diversity, learning differences, and inclusivity, authoring an equality and diversity toolkit and lessons based on classical myth for autistic children. She has taught at Roehampton since 2004 and has held a Guest Professorship in the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna. A founder of the Women’s Classical Committee UK, she has served on the Councils of the Hellenic Society and Classical Association. Her editorship of the Bulletin of the Council of University Classical Departments has transformed it into a high-impact forum for current issues and practice. Her next book concerns Athena as ‘trickster’, and she is co-editing new collections on ancient rape and ‘Problems with Greek Gods’.

Signatories

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