Dr. Mar Rodda

Biography

Mar Rodda attended the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, and later moved to the UK, where he studied at Durham and Oxford. He holds a DPhil in Classical Languages and Literature from Oxford, supervised by Professor Philomen Probert. Mar has worked at Regent's Park, University College, and Merton, and is currently a Leventis Early Career Fellow focusing on Ancient Greek. His primary research interests include the interactions between disability, masculinity, and gender in Greek literature from the Roman Empire. His doctoral thesis is a quantitative analysis of formulaic variation in early Greek hexameter poetry. He maintains an active interest in the dialogue between contemporary linguistic approaches, particularly Discourse Analysis and Construction Grammar, and traditional philology, Hellenistic epic, and Greek theatre.

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