Dr. Tania Demetriou

Biography

Tania Demetriou is a Lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, where she has been a faculty member since 2016. She studied English at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, and obtained her PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge. Previously, she held a Junior Research Fellowship at St John’s College, Oxford, and served as a Lecturer in early modern literature at the University of York. Her research focuses on classical reception during the early modern period, particularly the reception of Greek literature in England and its interactions with European intermediaries, as well as the practices of reading, scholarship, translation, and literary imitation during this period. She is currently working on a book about the reception of Homer in England, tracing the impact of Homer’s epics on English literary culture during the early modern period. Throughout her work, she explores how the reception of these texts was shaped by various historical moments and circles of English writers and thinkers, including commercial dramatists. George Chapman is a recurring focus of her research, alongside influential figures such as Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. In collaboration with Andrew Taylor, she convenes the Neo-Latin seminar at the faculty.

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