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Alison Sharrock is the Hulme Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester, affiliated with the School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures and the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, and Egyptology. She holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2024–2027) focusing on 'Ovid and the Environmental Crisis.' Her academic roles have included Director of Research, Head of Archaeology/Religions/Theology, and Head of Classics. She earned her BA from Liverpool (1984) and PhD from Cambridge (1988).
Her research emphasizes Latin poetry (Plautus to imperial era), with a focus on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, ecocriticism, feminist literary theory, and Roman comedy. She edits the Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory series and leads an online ecocritical reading group. Recent PhD supervision includes studies on Ovid/Virgil pastoral poetry, Lucan’s Pharsalia, and Statius’ Thebaid.
Her Leverhulme project explores environmental crises through Ovidian lenses, aligning with UN SDG 13 (Climate Action). She has published widely on topics like anthropogenic heating in Ovid, ecofeminism in metamorphosis narratives, and authorial identity in Roman epic.
