Marguerite Johnson

Marguerite Johnson is Professor of Classics at The University of Newcastle.

Her work is inspired by certain cultural facets of antiquity, particularly the gender dynamics and sexualities of the Greeks and Romans.

She is also fascinated by the ways in which the ancients told stories via their folktales, fairytales and myth-making processes. How these stories have been transmitted by composers and authors - from Sappho to Plato, Catullus and Ovid – inform the basis of some of her research and teaching.

Ancient legacies expressed in post-ancient societies, particularly in an Australian context, is another research area.

Marguerite is also interested in interdisciplinary research incorporating and extending Classically-informed paradigms. Theory, modern retellings of tales, reinventions of myths, legends and various belief systems underlie some of her enquiries and her practice-based research. Her short stories on Clodia and Medea have appeared in Arion and her Catullan-inspired poetry in Tellus.