Barbara Goff
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Professor
- Professor Emerita
Areas of interest
Greek tragedy and its reception, women in antiquity, postcolonial Classics, reception of ancient political thought.Teaching
Research centres and groups
I am on the executive committee of the Classical Reception Studies Network, based at the Open University.
I am on the international editorial boards of the Classical Receptions Journal (OUP) of Elektra (University of Patras), and of Classical Receptions in Twentieth Century Writing (Bloomsbury).
Background
Barbara retired from the Â鶹´«Ã½ at the end of September 2023, after many years of teaching and research, at Reading and formerly at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a graduate of King’s College, Cambridge, and the University of California, Berkeley.
For the conference in honour of her retirement, please click .
Selected publications
- Classicising Crisis: the Greco-Roman Repertoire and the Modern Age of Revolutions. Co-edited with Michael Simpson, Goldsmiths, University of London, with a co-authored Introduction. London: Routledge, 2021
- Your Secret Language: classics in the British colonies of West Africa. London: Bloomsbury, 2013
- Thinking the Olympics: the classical tradition and the modern Games. Co-edited with Michael Simpson, with an Introduction. London: Bloomsbury Academic/Bristol Classical Press, 2011
- Euripides: Trojan Women. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Drama. London: Duckworth, 2009
- Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora. Co-authored with Michael Simpson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
- Classics and Colonialism. Edited with an Introduction. London: Duckworth, 2005
- Citizen Bacchae: women’s ritual practice in ancient Greece. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004
- The Noose of Words: readings of desire, violence and language in Euripides’ ‘Hippolytos’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990