Alison Sharrock


Alison Ruth Sharrock is an English Classics scholar. She has been Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester since August 2000. In 2009, she gave the Stanford Memorial Lectures. Together with David Konstan of Brown University, she edits the series Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory published by Oxford University Press.

Career

Alison Sharrock graduated in 1984 from the University of Liverpool with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1988. She worked at Keele University from 1989 to 2000. During her current post as Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester, she was Head of the Division of Archaeology, Religions and Theology, Classics and Ancient History, and then Head of the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archeology and Egyptology in the . She specialises in Latin literature, particularly in feminist readings of comedy, elegy and epic. She also develops online support materials for teachers and learners of the Latin language.

Selected publications

Books as single author

Reading Roman Comedy: Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence ; Fifty Key Classical Authors ; Seduction and Repetition in Ovid's'' Ars Amatoria II ;

Books as editor

Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science ; The Art of Love: Bimillenial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris ; Intratextuality: Greek and Roman Textual Relations ;

Contributions to books

Articles

Miscellaneous