My research draws together a wide-ranging selection of Ancient Greek and Latin, and Christian and ‘pagan’ texts from the fourth and fifth centuries CE. I hope to explore ways in which the concerns of historical theology can be dynamically read into the poetic forms of these texts. Within this frame, my particular focus is on the (in)corporeality of the Christian divine and how we may relate these ideas to key representational motifs (bodily rupture, fragmentation and generation) found across late antique poetry. My DPhil is co-funded by the AHRC OOC DTP and St John's College.
