Sarah Cullinan-Herring

Dr Sarah Cullinan Herring read for a BA and an MSt in Classics at Oriel College, and a DPhil at University College which she completed in 2012.

She was a lecturer in Ancient Greek literature at Balliol and Trinity Colleges before moving to Winchester College where she was Head of Classics for several years, during which time she became a qualified teacher.

Sarah teaches Greek Literature, including Homer's Iliad, Early Greek Hexameter Poetry, Greek Tragedy, Greek Core, and the Epic & Tragedy link papers.

Her research is mainly in Greek Literature: she has published articles on Epic, Lyric and Hellenistic poetry and has a book forthcoming with Oxford University Press entitled 'The Power of Performance: Embedded Songs in Greek Poetry'.

She has several new articles forthcoming on gender fluidity in Greek literature, disability in Lucian's representation of sex workers and Clytemnestra's dream of breast-feeding a snake in Aeschylus' Libation Bearers. Her second book project focuses on genetic trauma in Greek and Roman tragedy.

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‘Embedded Song and Poetic Authority in Pindar and Bacchylides’ in Authorship and Greek Song: Authority, Authenticity and Performance, Brill (2017).

An Introduction and Commentary on Aristophanes Acharnians (1-203, 366-392)  in OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level, Bloomsbury (2016).

Review of Echoing Hylas: A Study in Hellenistic and Roman Metapoetics (Mark Heerink), University of Wisconsin Press (2015).

Review of Birds in the Iliad (K. Johansson) in Classical Review (2014).

‘Proemic Convention and Character Construction in Early Greek Epic’ in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (2013).

Eight entries in the Virgil Encyclopedia (eds. Richard Thomas and Jan Ziolkowski). (2013).

‘Eros through the Looking-Glass’ in Ramus vol. 40.2 (2011).