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Faculty Profile
Helen Morales

Telephone: 805-893-3551 Email: hmorales@classics.ucsb.edu

Helen Morales is a classicist and cultural critic with a wide range of interests in the ancient world. These include the ancient novel, mythology, literary criticism, art and text, sexual ethics, and diversity. These interests are always connected to major contemporary concerns – leadership, class, race, feminism, aesthetics, law – a better understanding of which, in her view, comes through appreciating their investment in Classics. Helen received her PhD from the University of Cambridge and has previously taught at the University of Reading, Arizona State University, and the University of Cambridge (2001-8), where she was also a Fellow of Newnham College. In 1998-9 she was a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC. She has done consultancy work for the Royal National Theatre, reviews books for a wide range of journals, including the Times Literary Supplement, and enjoys giving public lectures and speaking on the radio (most recently on Tibor Fischer’s program on the ancient novel for BBC Radio 4).

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Books

Dying for Josephus (a special issue of Ramus, as editor, with Simon Goldhill, 2007)

Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2007)

Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius� �Leucippe and Clitophon� (Cambridge, 2004)

Intratextuality: Greek and Roman Textual Relations (as editor, with Alison Sharrock, Oxford, 2000)

Journal

Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature (co-editor, with A.J. Boyle). For her editorial, �Ramus: thirty-five years� see vol. 35 no. 1 (2006). To go to the Ramus webpage, click here.

Selected Articles

�Phryne and the psychology and ethics of ekphrasis� in Michael Paschalis ed. Greek and Roman Ekphrasis (an Ancient Narrative supplement, forthcoming 2009)

�Challenging some orthodoxies: the politics of genre and the ancient Greek novel� in Grammatiki Karla ed. Fiction on the Fringe, Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age (a Mnemosyne supplement, vol 310, forthcoming 2009)

�The History of Sexuality�, in Tim Whitmarsh ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel (Cambridge, 2008), 39-55.

�Marrying Mesopotamia: Female Sexuality and Cultural Resistance in Iamblichus� Babylonian Tales� in Ramus vol 35 no. 1 (2006), 78-101.

�Metaphor, Gender, and the Ancient Greek Novel�, in Stephen Harrison, Michael Paschalis and Stavros Frangoulidis eds. Metaphor and the Ancient Novel (Groningen, 2005), 1-22.

�Sense and Sententiousness in the Ancient Greek Novels� in Sharrock and Morales eds. Intratextuality (see above, Oxford, 2000), 67-88.

�Constructing Gender in Musaeus� Hero and Leander� in Richard Miles ed. Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity (London, 1999), 41-69.

�The Torturer�s Apprentice: Parrhasius and the Limits of Art�, in Jas Elsner ed. Art and Text in the Roman World (Cambridge, 1996), 182-209.

�The Taming of the View: Natural Curiosities in Leukippe and Kleitophon�, Groningen Colloquia on the Novel 6 (1995), 39-50.

Current Projects

A literary and cultural history of incest in antiquity; an edited section on Gender Controversies (with Jude Browne, Director of the Cambridge University Center for Gender Studies); editing a new Penguin Classics on Greek Fiction (with translations of Chariton, Longus and Chion of Heraclea), editing and writing new notes for the Penguin Classics Petronius, Satyricon; a project on art and law (with Simon Goldhill).