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research overview |
<p>A major strand of my research concerns the Greek comic playwright Aristophanes,
especially the humour and sexuality of his plays and their translation into English. More
recently I have been looking at sex and sexuality in classical Athenian society in
general and concepts of beauty and sex appeal in particular as well as male prostitution
in classical Athens. I am currently working on a book on Aristophanes'<em>Lysistrata</em>.</p><p>I
have previously supervised a number of PhD students working on classical Greek literary,
cultural and linguistic topics.</p><h2>Publications</h2><h3>Books</h3><p><strong>2015</strong><br
/>Jointly with M. Masterson and N. S. Rabinowitz (eds),<em>Sex in Antiquity: Reconsidering
Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World</em>, Routledge</p><p><strong>2013</strong><br
/><em>Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens</em>, Debates and Documents in Ancient
History, Edinburgh University Press</p><p><strong>2010</strong><br />Jointly with
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones:<em>Ctesias’</em>History of Persia:<em>Tales of the Orient</em>,
Routledge</p><p><strong>2009</strong><br /><em>Aristophanes: An Introduction</em>,
Duckworth (shortlisted for the Runciman Award, 2010)</p><p><strong>2006</strong><br
/><em>Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes</em>, Gunter Narr.<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ArdNTVQvqM4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false"
rel="nofollow"><u>See this text online at Google books</u></a>.</p><p><strong>2005</strong><br
/>Jointly with F. McHardy and D. Harvey (eds),<em>Lost Dramas of Classical Athens:
Greek Tragic Fragments</em>, University of Exeter Press</p><h3>Articles and Book Chapters</h3><p><strong>2018</strong><br
/>'Whoring, Gaping and Hiding Meat: The Humour of Male-on-Male Sexual Insults
in Aristophanes'<em>Knights</em>', <em>Archimède </em>5:
24-34 [<a href="https://archimede.unistra.fr/fileadmin/upload/DUN/archimede/Revue_Archimede_RAHA/Numero_5/HU02_Robson.pdf"
rel="nofollow">PDF available online</a>]</p><p><strong>2017</strong><br />‘Humouring
the masses: The Theatre Audience and the Highs and Lows of Aristophanic Comedy’,
in L. Grig (ed.),<em>Popular Culture in the Ancient World</em>, Cambridge University
Press, 66-87</p><p><strong>2016</strong><br />'Aristophanes, Gender and Sexuality',
in P. Walsh (ed.),<em>Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes</em>,
Brill, 44-66 [<a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/intranets/students/modules/theatre/lecturematerial/aristophanes_sex_and_gender.pdf"
rel="nofollow">PDF available online</a>]</p><p>'The<em>Frogs</em>and<em>Thesmophoriazusae</em>',
in A. Singh (ed.),<em>Causeries</em>, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, NL,
154-66</p><p>Jointly with Mark Masterson,'The Book and its Influence',
preface to the re-issue of K. J. Dover,<em>Greek Homosexuality</em>, Bloomsbury, xv-xxvii
[<a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fn6fCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false"
rel="nofollow">read this online</a>]</p><p><strong>2015</strong><br />‘Fantastic
Sex: Fantasies of Sexual Assault in Aristophanes’, in M. Masterson, N. S. Rabinowitz
and J. Robson (eds),<em>Sex in Antiquity: Reconsidering Gender and Sexuality in the
Ancient World</em>, Routledge, 315-31</p><p><strong>2014</strong><br />'Slipping
One In: The Introduction of Obscene Lexical Items in Aristophanes’, S. D. Olson
(ed.),<em>Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson</em>,
de Gruyter, 29-50</p><p><strong>2013</strong><br />'The Language(s) of Love in
Aristophanes', E. Sanders, C. Thumiger, C. Carey and N. J. Lowe (eds), Erôs<em>in</em><em>Ancient
Greece</em>, Oxford University Press, 251-66</p><p>‘Beauty and Sex Appeal in
Aristophanes’,<em>EuGeStA</em>(<em>Journal on Gender Studies in Antiquity</em>)
3: 43-66 [<a href="http://eugesta.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/revue/pdf/2013/Robson-3_2013.pdf"
rel="nofollow">PDF available online</a>]</p><p><strong>2012</strong><br />'Transposing
Aristophanes: The Theory and Practice of Translating Aristophanic Lyric',<em>Greece&
Rome</em>59: 214-44</p><p><strong>2010</strong><br />‘Friends and Foes: The
People of<em>Lysistrata</em>’, D. Stuttard (ed.),<em>Looking at Lysistrata</em>,
Duckworth, 49-60</p><p><strong>2007</strong><br />‘Lost in Translation? The
Problem of (Aristophanic) Humour’, L. Hardwick and C. Stray (eds),<em>A Companion
to Classical Receptions</em>, Blackwell, 168-82</p><p>‘Catullus 22:<em>Suffenus
iste</em>– A Catullan Riddle?’,<em>Classica et Mediaevalia</em>58: 209-14</p><p><strong>2006</strong><br
/>‘Self and Society in Classical Athens’, P. Perkins (ed.),<em>Experiencing
the Classical World</em>, Open University, 86-109</p><p><strong>2005</strong><br />‘Aristophanes
on How to Write Tragedy: What You Wear is What You Are’, F. McHardy, J. Robson
and D. Harvey (eds),<em>Lost Dramas of Classical Athens: Greek Tragic Fragments</em>,
University of Exeter Press, 173-188</p><p>‘New Clothes, A New You: Clothing
and Character in Aristophanes’, L. Cleland, L. Llewellyn-Jones and M. Harlow
(eds),<em>The Clothed Body in the Ancient World</em>, Oxbow, 65-74</p><p><strong>1997</strong><br
/>‘Bestiality and Bestial Rape in Greek Myth’, S. Deacy and K. Pearce
(eds),<em>Rape in Antiquity</em>, Duckworth, 65-96</p><h3>Teaching and Pedagogy</h3><p><strong>2019</strong><br
/><span>Jointly with M. E. Lloyd,'Staying the Distance: Transforming Latin Pedagogy
at the Open University', </span><i>Journal of Latin Linguistics</i><span> 18.1-2:
101-128</span></p><p><span>Jointly with M. E. Lloyd,'Making IT Count: Measuring
Student Engagement with Online Resources at the Open University', in B. Natoli
and S. Hunt (eds) </span><em>Teaching Classics with Technology</em><span>, Bloomsbury,
39-52</span></p><p><strong>2018</strong><br /><span>Jointly with M. E. Lloyd,'A
Survey of Beginner's Language Teaching in UK Classics Departments: Ancient Greek', </span><em>Bulletin
of the Council of University Classical Departments</em><span>47 [<a href="https://cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2018/04/ROBSON-LLOYD-CUCD-Greek-Survey.pdf"
rel="nofollow">PDF available online</a>]</span></p><p><span>Jointly with M. E. Lloyd,'A
Survey of Beginner's Language Teaching in UK Classics Departments: Latin', </span><em>Bulletin
of the Council of University Classical Departments </em><span>47 [<a href="https://cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2018/05/LLOYD-ROBSON-CUCD-Latin-Survey.pdf"
rel="nofollow">PDF available online</a>]</span></p><p><span>Jointly with E-J
Graham,'Classics Online at the Open University: Teaching and Learning with Interactive
Resources', in A. Holmes-Henderson, M. Musié and S. Hunt (eds), </span><em>Forward
with Classics!: Classical Languages in Schools and Communities</em><span>, Bloomsbury</span>,
217-29</p><p><strong>2010</strong><br />‘Bridging the Divide: Innovations in
Language Teaching at the Open University’,<em>Bulletin of the Council of University
Classical Departments</em>39: 11-14 [<a href="https://cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2015/02/Bulletin-39-2010.pdf"
rel="nofollow" title=""Bridging the Divide ...""><u>PDF available online</u></a>]</p><p><strong>2008</strong><br
/>‘Editorial’,<em>Journal of Classics Teaching</em>13 (spring): 1 [Guest
editorship of themed issue on Adult Education]</p><p><strong>2007</strong><br /><em>Reading
Greek: Grammar and Exercises</em>, Cambridge University Press: Revisions to Sections
3-9 for 2nd edition: 54-209</p><p>Jointly with Jeremy Taylor:‘Greek and Latin
Web Resources at the Open University’,<em>Journal of Classics Teaching</em>10
(spring): 29-30</p><p><strong>2005</strong><br />‘“Night was departing…”:
Using Translations in Post-Beginners’ Language Teaching’,<em>Different
Lights, Different Hands</em>(LTSN Subject Centre for History, Classics, Archaeology,
26 January 2002), D. Fitzpatrick and L. Hardwick (eds), Open University, 85-100</p><p><strong>2002</strong><br
/>‘Commentaries and Post-beginners’ Language Learning’,<em>Old Wine,
New Bottles: Texts for Classics in a Changed Learning Environment at University: Proceedings
of the</em>Teaching and Learning with Texts, Commentaries and Translations<em>Colloquium</em>(LTSN
Subject Centre for History, Classics, Archaeology, 26 January 2002), D. Fitzpatrick,
L. Hardwick, S. Ireland and D. Montserrat (eds), Open University, 51-60 </p><h3>Shorter
Articles and Outreach</h3><p><strong>2019</strong><br /><span>Entries on'Humour
and Laughter, Theories of','Lampito','Translations' and 'Wordplay',
in A. H. Sommerstein (ed.), </span><em>Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Greek
Comedy</em><span>, Wiley-Blackwell [<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118542842"
rel="nofollow">read this online</a>]</span></p><p><strong>2018</strong><br />'Comforting
to Know that Comedians Still Take on the Tough Job of Tackling Taboos',<em>The
Scotsman</em>, 14/8/18 [<a href="https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/james-robson-comforting-to-know-that-comedians-still-take-on-the-tough-job-of-tackling-taboos-1-4783063"
rel="nofollow">read this online</a>]</p><p><strong>2017</strong><br />Entry on'Aristophanes',
in J. Burgess, E. Kneebone, V. Liapis and L. Swift (eds), <em>The Literary
Encyclopedia,</em> <em>Volume 1.1.1:</em> <em>Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic
and Imperial Greek Writing and Culture, 800-100 B.C.E.</em> [<a href="http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=147"
rel="nofollow">read this online</a>]</p><p><strong>2016</strong><br />'Greek Homosexuality
for Millennials',<em>ARGO: A Hellenic Review</em>4: 4-5</p><p><strong>2015</strong><br
/>'The Truth about Sex in Ancient Greece', <em>The Conversation</em> 1/4/15 [<a
href="https://theconversation.com/the-truth-about-sex-in-ancient-greece-39025" rel="nofollow">read
this online</a>]</p><p><strong>2014</strong><br />‘Classical Comedy was Just
as Risqué as Rik Mayall',<em>London Evening Standard</em>, 17/6/14
[<a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/james-robson-classical-comedy-was-just-as-risqu-as-rik-mayall-9542884.html"
rel="nofollow">read this online</a>]</p><p><strong>2013</strong><br />Entries on‘Grotesque
Character(s)’ and‘Tragicomedy in Tragedy’ in H. Roisman (ed.),<em>The
Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy</em>, Blackwell</p><p><strong>2010</strong><br />‘Good
and Bad Comedy in Aristophanes’<em>Clouds’</em>,<em>Omnibus</em>60 (September
2010) 16-18 [<a href="https://ia801202.us.archive.org/19/items/Omnibus60/06RobsonAristophanesClouds.pdf"
rel="nofollow">PDF available online</a>]</p><p><strong>2009</strong><br />‘The
Ancient Greeks were the True Masters of Obscenity’,<em>London Evening Standard</em>,
25/11/09 [<a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/the-ancient-greeks-were-the-true-masters-of-obscenity-6732498.html"
rel="nofollow">read this online</a>]</p><p><strong>2006</strong><br />‘Humour,
Translation and Aristophanes’<em>Wasps</em>’,<em>Omnibus</em>52 (September
2006) 32-3 [<a href="https://ia803207.us.archive.org/4/items/Omnibus52/13RobsonWasps.pdf"
rel="nofollow">PDF available online</a>]</p><p><strong>2004</strong><br />‘Translating
Aristophanes’ Humour’,<em>Journal of Classics Teaching</em>2 (summer)
3-5</p><p>See also<a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/jer47.html"><u>Open Research
Online</u></a>for further details of James Robson’s research publications.</p> |