Owen D. Hodkinson

(University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Owen Hodkinson, an Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics at the University of Leeds, is an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation alumnus, an expert on ancient epistolary literature, and a specialist in Second Sophistic, Philostratus, ancient fiction, modern literary receptions of classics and classical receptions in children’s literature. At present he is a Visiting Researcher in Classics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. In 2018 he co-edited with Helen Lovatt the volume Classical Reception and Children’s Literature Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation (I.B. Tauris). He has published numerous articles and chapters on the reception of the ancient myths in English language literature.