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Library of Congress award won by Lucy Fletcher

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Congratulations to Lucy Fletcher, who was been awarded a prestigious Library of Congress Scholarship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The award provides generous funding for Lucy to spend three months, during the summer of 2013, to carry out research at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. She will be based at the John W. Kluge Center, which is located in the librarys Thomas Jefferson Building, and will have unparalleled access to the librarys collections. Lucy will use this time to study material not easily available in the UK (especially continential European scholarship), which is relevant to her AHRC-funded doctoral thesis on narrative in Plutarchs Lives.

Department successful in UROP bid 2012

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The Department of Classics is delighted to announce that it has, again, been successful in its bid for two UROP placements in 2012.

Reading’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) is a scheme that allows second-year Undergraduates to carry out a paid six-weeks research project in close collaboration with an academic over the Summer vacation. These projects are an ideal preparation for students who consider an academic career beyond their first degree, and they are an excellent preparation for the third-year dissertation project. (For further information please refer to the UROP pages .)

The two projects this year will be:

Funding success for Niki Karapanagioti

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Niki Karapanagioti, who is now in her third year as a doctoral researcher in the department, has been awarded a scholarship from the Panagiotis Triantafyllidis Bequest Fund, which is for graduate students from the Peloponnese and is jointly administered by the Greek ministries of Economics and Education.

Niki’s research on Herodotus is already funded by a prestigious award from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (Ίδρυμα Κρατικών Υποτροφιών or ΊΚΥ); this new award has been back-dated to the first year of her PhD, before her current funding started. Congratulations Niki!