Dr Katherine Fleming, BA MPhil PhD (Cambridge)
Lecturer in Classical Studies
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 2866
email: k.m.fleming@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
- The classical tradition
- The role of antiquity in modern intellectual thought
Katie Fleming's interests lie in the study of the afterlife of the ancient world. Her research focuses on the appropriation of the ancient world in the twentieth century, particularly from the 1920s to the 1940s, and the place of ancient Greece and Rome in the work of such figures as Martin Heidegger and Theodor Adorno. She is currently working on a book entitled Longing for Greece: philosophy, homesickness, and the return to the Greeks, which traces the interaction and collision of philosophy, philhellenism, and nationalism in German thought from Hegel to Heidegger.
Publications:
"Fascism", in The Blackwell Companion to the Classical Tradition, ed by C Kallendorf (Blackwell, 2007)
‘The use and abuse of antiquity: the politics and morality of appropriation’, in Classics and the Uses of Reception, ed by C Martindale and R Thomas (Blackwell, 2006)
‘Fascism on stage: Jean Anouilh's Antigone ‘, in Laughing with Medusa: classical myth and feminist thought, ed by M Leonard and V Zajko (OUP, 2005)