Dr Sarah Hitch BA (Emory), PhD (Harvard)

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Classics, Corpus Christi College

Corpus Christi College
Oxford,
OX1 4JF

sarah.hitch@classics.ox.ac.uk

Profile

I currently hold a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2012-2013).

I have a B.A. in Classics from Emory University and a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University. Before I finished my Ph.D., I worked as a teacher at Winchester College and Westminster School. After Harvard, I was a teaching fellow at the University of Reading (2006-2007) and the University of Bristol (2007-2011).

Research Interests

Greek religion, myth, epic poetry

Selected Recent Publications

2006: Review of F. Naiden, Ancient Supplication (OUP 2006) Journal of Hellenic Studies, 128, 219-220.
2006: Review of A. Suter, ed. Lament (OUP 2006) Journal of Hellenic Studies, Oxford University Press, 129, 132-133.
2009: Review of G. Boys-Stone, B. Graziosi and P. Vasunia, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (Oxford, 2009) Classical Review 61.1.8-10.
2009: King of Sacrifice. Ritual and Royal Authority in the Iliad., Harvard University Press.
2011: Embedded speech in the Attic leges sacrae” for Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion. Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World,eds. A.P.M.H. Lardinois, J.H. Blok and M.G.M. van der Poel. Leiden, Brill, 8, 113-142.
2012: forthcoming: "Performing Sacrifice in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo" for Animal Sacrifice in the Greek World, eds. S. Hitch and I. Rutherford, (under contract to Cambridge University Press).
2012: forthcoming: " Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Sacrifice" (with I. Rutherford).
2012: In press: "Hero Cult in Apollonius Rhodius” for Hellenistica Groningana IX, Peeters Publishers.
2012: forthcoming: “Anthropology” and “Greek Sacrifice” for Companion to Food in Antiquity, ed. J. Wilkins and R. Nadeau., (under contract to Blackwell).