Gina is in her second year of post-graduate research, studying for a PhD. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Kent in 2009 (graduating with First Class Hons.)

Research Interests: Greek comedy and tragedy Greek and Roman myth The politics, culture and society of Ancient Greece and Rome Roman Satire

Subject of Research: The intertextuality in Aristophanes

Existing scholarship explores the relationship between Aristophanes and other playwrights. My research will provide an extra dimension by focusing primarily on the reciprocal intertextuality of Aristophanes and Euripides.  By the close examination and comparison of their work, I intend to establish a link between Greek Comedy and Tragedy and show the dialogue between the two genres in terms of both style and the manipulation of myth.  The second part of my research will show reciprocity of influence.

Research Supervisors: Professor Ray Laurence (chair), Dr A P Alwis and Dr Arthur Keavney

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Teaching

For the 2010-11 academic year Gina will be teaching the following modules at Kent:

Love and Sex in Greece and Rome Virgil's Aeneid The Rise and Fall of Athens The Civilisations of Greece and Rome

Gina is also supervising several students studying for their Classics and Archaeology final year Dissertations. She is also completing a PGCHE with the University of Kent.

She is still teaching for the Open University, as Associate Lecturer, specifically:

Culture, Identity and Power in the Roman Empire and Myth in the Greek and Roman Worlds.

Recently appointed an Examiner for the Open University, Gina has received a commendation from the OU for her teaching and student support.

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