Jennifer Wallace

Jennifer Wallace is a Lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. Her books include Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism (1997), Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination (2004) and The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy (2007) and she has published articles on a range of 18th and 19thC writers (Wordsworth,Byron, Shelley, Keats, Mary Shelley, L.E.L., Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Carter), on archaeological and anthropological topics (Romantic archaeology, biblical archaeology in the Holy Land, the Indian Adivasi) and on classical and modern tragedy. She is the co-editor of the Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature 1790-1880 (2015; forthcoming), and is currently engaged in a large project on Tragedy. For the last five years, she has served as a judge for the Criticos prize (a prize awarded to a book related to Greece, ancient, Byzantine or modern), and she is a member of the committee which produces the triannual Cambridge Greek Play.