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Stipendiary Lecturer in Classics
E-mail: victoria.hodges@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
Victoria is a stipendiary lecturer in Classics at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford. She completed her PhD in Classics at Rutgers University funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and has held numerous research positions at the American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. She also serves as the elected co-chair for the Ancient Novel and Ancient Narrative Community (2025–present).
Victoria teaches Ancient Greek and Latin literature papers and language acquisition.
Victoria’s research is broadly concerned with Imperial Greek literature and questions of reading communities and embodied knowledge. Her primary project explores the foundations of Imperial reading cultures and their subversive appearance in the ancient novels and novelistic texts in particular. Alongside this larger study, her research includes projects on Imperial dance and spectatorship, early modern ballet, and ancient aesthetics.
2026. “From Immoveable Trees to Cavernous Seas: The Impossibility of the Sublime Bridge in Lucian’s True Histories.” In The Sublime Under Empire. Eds. P. Glauthier and J. Ulrich, Brill. 179–207.
2025. “Mulier Equitans: Erotic Display in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and Roman Wall Painting” in Materiality and Ancient Narrative. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 31, Eds. E. Adkins and E. Cueva, Barkhuis. 239–262.