I am a Lecturer (Education and Research) in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter.
Research
My research interests include the languages of ancient Italy, linguistic and cultural contact in the ancient world, personal names, Greek and Roman comedy, and epigraphy. I work mostly on historical sociolinguistics, especially multilingualism, language contact and gender linguistics.
My current research project, ‘Connectivity and competition: multilingualism in ancient Italy‘, is funded by an AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellowship. My book, Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily, was published by Cambridge University Press in October 2015. You can find out more about my PhD thesis, articles and other publications on my publications page.
Teaching
I have taught courses in Greek, Latin and Indo-European linguistics, Roman history, Latin language and Latin literature. In the 2017-2018 academic year, I will be teaching the undergraduate courses Language in Greek and Roman Society, Italy Before Rome and Latin II and a master’s course on Greek and Roman epigraphy.
Biography
After growing up in Chelmsford, Essex, I studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and as an Erasmus student at Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. My interests include theatre and film – I managed to combine Classics and theatre by being involved in three productions of the Cambridge Greek Play.
After my PhD, I was a Research Fellow in Classics at Gonville and Caius College (2013-2016) and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. I was also an Affiliated Researcher on the AHRC-funded Greek in Italy project (2014-2018) and a Rome Awardee at the British School at Rome (2014-2015).
I am currently the web manager for the Women’s Classical Committee, and I was previously their Early Career Liaison. I’m also the treasurer of the Reid Trust, and a trustee of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Contact Me
Department Webpage (with email)
Twitter:
@Katherine_McDon
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0721-3303
Other sites
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