Speakers:  Professor Edith Hall (pictured) and Dr Henry Stead, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Classics and Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London

Lecture title: “Between the Party and the Ivory Tower. Classics and British Communism in the 1930s”

Time: The lecture will take place from 4:30pm until 5:30pm, followed by a reception

Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Venue: Faraday J Lecture Theatre, Faraday Building, Swansea University

Admission: Free, with reception afterwards. All welcome.

Since being awarded the Hellenic Foundation Prize for her Oxford doctorate in 1988, Professor Edith Hall has held posts at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and London Universities. She has published 20 books.

Her specialism is ancient Greek literature, but she enjoys putting the pleasure as well as the rigour into all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman history, society, and thought.

Professor Hall is Co-Founder and Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford and Chairman of the Gilbert Murray Trust. She has won funding for research from the AHRB, the AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, and has recently been awarded a Humboldt Research Prize.

She appears regularly on BBC Radio, and has acted as consultant to professional productions of ancient drama at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, Northern Broadsides, Theaterkombinat and other professional companies.

Professor Hall’s personal website at www.edithhall.co.uk contains further information about her work and interests and she has a very popular blog, The Edithorial, which can be found at http://edithorial.blogspot.co.uk/.

Professor Hall leads the AHRC-funded research project Classics and Class in Britain (1789-1939) with Dr Henry Stead, Post-doctoral Research Associate, at King’s College, London.