Siobhan Chomse

Siobhan Chomse serves as Lecturer in Latin Language & Literature within the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is affiliated with the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome.

Her research interrogates the literary sublime in early imperial Roman texts, analyzing how Virgil, Lucan, and Tacitus deploy sublimity to articulate societal instabilities through architectural marvels, technological wonders, and natural cataclysms like volcanic eruptions. Current projects include monograph revision of her doctoral thesis and a new study examining the Roman emperor as a sublime figure in Latin literature.

Publication trends reveal sustained engagement with ironic subversion of the sublime across epic and historical narratives, with recurring thematic clusters in gendered aesthetics (particularly feminine sublimity), monumentality in Augustan geography, and the political resonance of ruins within imperial discourse.