Susan Jane Deacy is aclassical scholar who has beenProfessor ofClassics at theUniversity of Roehampton since January 2018.^[1] She researches the history and literature of theancient Greek world, with a particular focus on gender and sexuality, ancientGreek mythology and religion, and disability studies. She is also an expert on the teaching of subjects which are potentially sensitive, includingsexual violence,domestic violence, andinfanticide; she was project leader on the initiative 'Teaching Sensitive Subjects in the Classics Classroom'.^[2] She is also series editor ofRoutledge'sGods and Heroes of the Ancient World,^[3] and has been editor of the Bulletin of theCouncil of University Classical Departments since 2011.^[4]

Deacy was educated at theUniversity of Wales, where she took aBachelor of Arts in Classical Studies and Theology in 1991 and aPhD in Classics in 2000.^[5]

Deacy was a tutor in classics at theUniversity of Wales, Lampeter (1992–1995) and theUniversity of Wales, Aberystwyth (1993–1995). She was then alecturer in classics at theUniversity of Keele (1995–1996) and theUniversity of Leeds (1996–1997). She was a lecturer in ancient history at theUniversity of Manchester from 2002 to 2004.^[5]

In 2005, she was appointed lecturer in Greek history and literature at theUniversity of Roehampton.^[6] She was promoted to senior lecturer in 2007 and to principal lecturer in 2011.^[7] She held theKäthe-Leichter visiting professorship for gender studies at theUniversity of Vienna in 2010/11, where she gave the Käthe-Leichter Lecture on 'A traitor to her sex? Athena the trickster'.^[8] She became aNational Teaching Fellow of theHigher Education Academy in 2015.^[2] She was promoted to Professor of Classics in January 2018.^[1]

She is a team member on the 'Our Mythical Childhood' project,^[9] which is based in Warsaw and funded by theEuropean Research Council; it examinesclassical reception in children's and young adults' culture.^[10] In relation to this she also researches the autistic connection and reception of myth.^[11]

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• 2001 (ed., with Alexandra Villing).Athena in the Classical World. Brill.ISBN 978-9004121423.
• 2002 (ed., with Karen F. Pierce).Rape in Antiquity: Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Bloomsbury.ISBN 978-0715631478
• 2008.Athena (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World). Routledge.ISBN 978-0715631478
• 2012 (withFiona McHardy). 'Teaching sensitive subjects in the classical classroom: challenges, advice, and strategies.'CUCD Bulletin 41: 28–31.[1]
• 2013. 'From "flowery tales" to "heroic rapes": virginal subjectivity in the mythological meadow',Arethusa 46.3: 395–413.
• 2013 (with Fiona McHardy). 'Uxoricide in pregnancy: ancient Greek domestic violence in evolutionary perspective',Evolutionary Psychology 11.5: 994–1010.

• Opening Presentation, 'Violence, Power and Beyond', for the Conference Rape in Antiquity, University of Roehampton, 22 June 2017
• Staff Profile Page, University of Roehampton
• Advance Higher Education Profile Page
• Susan Deacy on WorldCat Identities

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• Academics of the University of Roehampton
• Alumni of the University of Wales
• British classical scholars
• British women classical scholars

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