Dr. Laura Swift

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsGreek and Latin Philology
Keywordscommentary, elegy, iambic, Archilochus

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford
InstitutionUniversity of Oxford
InstituteMagdalen College

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gyburg UhlmannInstitut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2012

Programme(s)

2010Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2022Laura Swift: A Companion to Greek Lyric. Wiley, 2022
2021Laura Swift: Negotiating hegemony in Early Greek Poetry. Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World. Routledge, 2021.
2019Laura Swift: Archilochus: The Poems. Oxford University Press, 2019
2018Laura Swift: Competing generic narratives in Aeschylus' Oresteia. Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy. De Gruyter, 2018.
2016Dr. Laura Swift Professor Chris Carey: Iambus and Elegy: New Approaches. Oxford University Press, 2016
2016Dr. Laura Swift: Poetics and precedents in Archilochus’ erotic imagery. In: Laura Swift Chris Carey, Iambus and Elegy: New Approaches. Oxford University Press, 2016. 253-270
2015Dr. Laura Swift: Negotiating seduction: Archilochus’ Cologne Epode and the transformation of epic. In: Philologus, 2015, 2-28
2015Dr. Laura Swift: Lyric visions of epic combat: the spectacle of war in archaic personal song. In: Anastasia Bakogianni Valerie Hope, War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict. Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. 93-109
2014Dr. Laura Swift: The animal fable and Greek iambus: ainoi and half-ainoi in Archilochus. In: C. Werner B. Sebastini, Gêneros poéticos na Grécia antiga: Confluências e fronteiras. Humanitas, 2014. 49-77