Alexandra Hardwick

Dr Alexandra Hardwick is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Classics at Corpus Christi College and Wadham College, University of Oxford. She holds a BA from Queens’ College, Cambridge (2013-16), an MSt in Classical Languages and Literature from Oxford (2016-17), and a DPhil in Classics from Oxford (completed in 2021 with AHRC funding). Her research applies contemporary social science frameworks to ancient Greek texts, focusing on group dynamics, affect theory, and collective emotion in drama, historiography, and poetry. Current projects include Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans and affect theory in Euripides.

Teaching encompasses all undergraduate Greek literature papers and postgraduate studies in drama and hexameter poetry, emphasizing critical engagement with complex texts like Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. She is committed to outreach, leading the Opportunity Oxford bridging programme (since 2020), the Wadham Classics Summer School (since 2021), and school workshops to promote Classics access in underserved regions.

Publications include a forthcoming monograph Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama (Oxford UP) and peer-reviewed articles on crowd psychology in comedy, textual criticism of Sophocles, and interdisciplinary responses to classical gender studies. Her work bridges classical philology, performance studies, and modern social theory.