DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY
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Duncan Kennedy
Professor of Latin Literature and the Theory of Criticism
Phone: +44 (0)117 928 8257
E-mail: duncan.f.kennedy@bristol.ac.uk
Research
Duncan Kennedy joined the department in 1988. His primary interests are Latin literature and its reception, literary theory and science studies. As well as books which explore critical responses to Roman love elegy (The Arts of Love) and use Lucretius as a focus for thinking about current debates in the study of science (Rethinking Reality), he has written many articles on Latin poetry, including influential studies of Lucretius, Virgil’s Eclogues and Aeneid, and Ovid’s Heroides and Ars Amatoria. He is currently preparing articles on violence in Seneca’s Phaedra and on elegy and narrativity. He is the joint editor (with Charles Martindale) of New Directions in Classics, a series of monographs to be published by I.B.Tauris showcasing innovative research in Classics, to which he will be contributing one of the first volumes, on literature and time.
Professor Kennedy would be happy to supervise PhD students working on any topics related to any of the above areas.
Teaching
In 2010/11 Professor Kennedy is teaching the following units:
- Time, Temporality and Texts
- Latin Level C (Catullus and Horace)
- Latin Level D (Vergil)
Selected publications
- ‘Afterword: The Uses of “Reception”’ in (eds) Charles Martindale and Richard Thomas, Classics and the Uses of Reception (Blackwell, 2006, in press)
- ‘Erotodidaxis and Intertextuality’ in (eds) Roy K. Gibson, A.R.Sharrock, S.Green, Ovid’s Ars Amatoria (Oxford University Press, 2006, in press)
- ‘Atoms, Individuals and Myths’ in (eds) V.Zajko and M.Leonard, Laughing With Medusa (Oxford, 2006), 233-252
- ‘Intention and the Subject of Interpretation: a Response’, Phoenix 59 (2005), 143-149
- New Introduction to a reprint of Arthur Palmer’s 1898 edition of Ovid’s Heroides (Exeter, 2 vols, 2005), VII-XXVII
- ‘The “Presence” of Roman Satire: Modern Receptions and Their Interpretative Implications’ in (ed. K. Freudenburg) The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (Cambridge, 2005), 299-308
- ‘Afterword’, Helios 31 (2004), 247-257 (Special issue: ‘Before Subjectivity: Lacan and the Classics, guest eds James I. Porter and Mark Buchan)
- ‘Recent Receptions of Ovid’ in (ed. P.R.Hardie), The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge, 2002), 318-333
- ‘Epistolarity: the Heroides’ in (ed. P.R.Hardie), The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge, 2002), 216-231
- Rethinking Reality: Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature (Ann Arbor, 2002)
- ‘Making a Text of the Universe: Perspectives on Discursive Order in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius’ in (eds. A.R.Sharrock and H.Morales), Intratextualities (Oxford, 2000), 205-225 (to be reprinted in [ed.] Monica Gale, Oxford Readings in Lucretius, 2006/7)
- ‘Bluff Your Way in Didactic: Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris’, Arethusa 33 (2000), 159-176