Dr Polly Stoker - University of Winchester

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Biography

Dr Polly Stoker is Lecturer in Classical History and Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) in Classical Studies. She teaches on a range of modules covering Greek and Roman literature and culture and its legacy. She is a specialist in women's creative responses to classical literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Polly was awarded her PhD in Classics from the University of Birmingham in 2019 with a thesis titled 'Classical reception in contemporary women's writing: emerging strategies from resistance to indeterminacy. She went on to hold the position of Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham before joining the University of Winchester in 2021. The Classical Studies team is part of the School of Humanities.

Areas of expertise

Epic poetry
Tragedy and comedy
Classical Reception

Publications

Stoker, Polly. "Romantic Encounters with Homer in Elizabeth Cook’s Achilles." In Homer’s Daughters: Women’s Responses to Homer, 1914-2014, edited by Fiona Cox and Elena Theodorakopoulos, 39-55. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

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