Dr Nick Lowe is a Reader

Reader (academic rank)

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 in Classics

Classics

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 in the Department of Classics and Philosophy

Philosophy

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 at Royal Holloway University of London, with interests including narratology

Narratology

Narratology denotes both the theory and the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect our perception. While in principle the word may refer to any systematic study of narrative, in practice its usage is rather more restricted. It is an anglicisation of French...

 and reception

Reception theory

Reception theory is a version of reader response literary theory that emphasizes the reader's reception of a literary text. It is more generally called audience reception in the analysis of communications models. In literary studies, reception theory originated from the work of Hans-Robert Jauss in...

 of Greek antiquity

Ancient Greece

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 in historical fiction

Historical fiction

Historical fiction tells a story that is set in the past. That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the principal characters tend to be fictional...

. He is also an award-winning film reviewer for science fiction

Science fiction

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 magazine, Interzone

Interzone

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. He received his MA and PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

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 from Cambridge University.

Biography

Lowe was born in Manchester

Manchester

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 and raised in Glasgow

Glasgow

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 before going up to read Classics at Cambridge. He taught Classics at three different colleges in London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

before being appointed lecturer in Greek literature at Royal Holloway.

Publications

• Comedy (2008), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics).
• 'Epinikian Eidography' (2007), in Pindar's Poetry, Patrons and Fetivals: from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, Morgan, C. A. & Hornblower, S. (eds.). Oxford: OUP, p. 167-76.
• 'Gilbert Murray and Psychic Research' (2007), in Reassessing Gilbert Murray, Stray, C. A. (ed.). Oxford: OUP, p. 349-70.
• 'Aristophanic Spacecraft' (2006), in Playing around Aristophanes: Essays in Honour of Alan Sommerstein, Kozak, L. & Rich, J. (eds.). Oxford : Aris & Phillips, p. 48-64.
• 'Problematic Verrall: The Sceptic-at-Law' (2005), in The Owl of Minerva: The Cambridge Praelections of 1906, Stray, C. A. (ed.). p. 142-60. (Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume).
• 'Euripides' (2004), in Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature, de Jong, I., Bowie, A. & Nünlist, R. (eds.). Leiden : Brill p. 269-80.
• 'Lycophron' (2004), in Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature, de Jong, I., Bowie, A. & Nünlist, R. (eds.). Leiden : Brill p. 307-14.
• 'Metamorphoses of Genre in Fictions of Antiquity' (2004), in Crimina: Die Antike im modernen Kriminalroman, Brodersen, K. (ed.). Frankfurt : Verlag Antike p. 217-39.
• 'Verrall, Arthur Woollgar' (2004), in The Dictionary of British Classicists, Todd, R. B. (ed.). Bristol : Thoemmes Continuum
• 'Comic Plots and the Invention of Fiction' (2000), in The Rivals of Aristophanes, Harvey, D. & Wilkins, J. M. (eds.). London & Swansea : Duckworth & Classical Press of Wales p. 259-72.
• The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative (2000), Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
• Theatre Ancient and Modern edited with Hardwick, L., Ireland, S. & Macintosh, F. Open University Press.
• 'Thesmophoria and Haloa: Myth, Physics, and Mysteries' (1998), in The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece, Blundell, S. & Williamson, M. (eds.). London & New York : Routledge p. 149-73.
• 'Tragic and Homeric Ironies' (1996), in Tragedy and The Tragic, Silk, M. S. (ed.). Oxford : Clarendon Press p. 520-33.
• 'Aristophanes' (1994), in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 2: Playwrights, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Detroit, Washington, & London : St James' Press p. 38-9.
• 'Terence' (1994), in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 2: Playwrights, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Detroit, Washington, & London : St James' Press p. 953-6.
• 'Aristophanes' Books' (1993), in Annals of Scholarship 10, p. 63-93.
• 'Frogs' (1992), with Hawkins-Dady, M. in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago & London : St James' Press p. 272-3.
• 'Lysistrata (1992) with Hawkins-Dady, M. in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago & London : St James' Press p. 446-8.
• 'Phormio' (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago & London : St James' Press p. 610-11.
• 'Prometheus Bound' (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago & London : St James' Press p. 637-9.
• 'The Braggart Soldier' (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago & London : St James' Press p. 78-9.
• 'The Suppliants' (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago & London : St James' Press p. 774-5.
• 'Greek Stagecraft and Aristophanes' (1988), in Themes in Drama 10: Farce. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press p. 33-52.
• 'Sulpicia's Syntax' (1988), in Classical Quarterly 38, p. 193-205.
• 'Tragic Space and Comic Timing in Menander's Dyskolos' (1987), in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 34, p. 126-38.

External links

• Nick Lowe's home page at RHUL