Centre for Classical Reception, Exeter

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The Exeter Centre for Classical Reception was established in the summer of 2019 to acknowledge and build on the extraordinary expertise in the field of classical reception across various Humanities disciplines at Exeter. The Centre draws together over twenty scholars from the departments of Classics, English, Modern Languages, Art History and Visual Culture, Politics and History. The Centre aims to generate and support research which acknowledges that Classics is a global discipline and which promotes awareness of the diversity of the discipline - both in the range of approaches it enables and in its openness to ‘receptions’ of antiquity from all cultures and all backgrounds.

The Centre is especially committed to supporting research which is public facing and engaged with contemporary issues. The study of classical reception requires conversations about pressing social and political concerns—conversations that can raise the profile of Classics both within and outside the academy, but which are also important in themselves. In the Exeter Centre for Classical Reception members believe that the field of Classical Reception has the potential not only to transform Classics into a more inclusive discipline, but also to be a beneficial political instrument with broader reach. One of the founding aims of the new centre is to make a positive difference; existing projects associated with the centre already pursue such aims in relation to gender, sexuality, contemporary politics, policy on land use, and conflict resolution.

At the University of Exeter, the Centre is also fortunate to have access to some important classical reception resources, including The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum and the archives of Ted Hughes, Leonard Baskin and William Golding in the university's Special Collections.

Current clusters of expertise include:

• Women writers and classical reception
• Reception by French women in 15th-17th
• Translation of Classical texts
• Classical reception in the South West region
• Reception of exempla and moral stories
• Reception of Homeric poetry
• Reception of Classics in the modern novel
• Reception of classical art in the 18th-20th centuries
• Decolonisation and classical reception

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2019

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University of Exeter
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