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Chloe Borowska 2023 imageLecturer

Contact

On leave semester 1 2024

Office 5N8, Arts Building
Email chloe.borowska@otago.ac.nz

Academic qualifications

2019: PhD, University of St Andrews
2014: MA, University of Otago
2012: BA(Hons), University of Otago

Background and research interests

Chloe's research explores human interactions with the environment in Ancient Greek narrative poetry. Her current project focuses on the role of the body in human-environment interactions, drawing upon recent advances in ecocriticism and phenomenology to better understand the ways in which ancient environments problematised or supported human identity, agency and perception.

She has participated in international research clusters such as Ancient Environments and their Legacy (led by E. Eidinow and C. Schliephake) and Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity (led by D. Hollis and J. König). Having organised outreach events and postgraduate training initiatives in the environmental humanities, Chloe is passionate about fostering dialogue between disciplines and beyond academia.

Chloe was previously Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (2020–22), where she completed a research project on temporality and emotion in the natural environments of Homer and Hesiod.

As a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews, Scotland (2015–2019), she interrogated the concept of liminality in the landscapes of Greek tragedy, finding that landscapes which are often labelled as liminal and separate in modern scholarship can also play connective roles, linking times, places, and concepts.

Chloe completed her undergraduate and MA degrees at the University of Otago.

Teaching

2024

  • CLAS 330 Special Topic: Experiencing the Environment in Ancient Greek Poetry
  • CLAS 460 Special Topic: Experiencing the Environment in Ancient Greek Poetry (Advanced)

Has also taught

Areas of research supervision

  • Early Greek Epic
  • Greek Tragedy
  • Greek Myth
  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Greek Literature
  • Ancient Greek Environments/Landscapes

Publications

Bray, C. (2022). Time and human fragility in the landscape similes of the Iliad. Classical Quarterly, 72(1), 25-38. doi: 10.1017/S0009838822000271 Journal - Research Article

Bray, C. (2021). Mountains of memory: A phenomenological approach to mountains in fifth-century BCE Greek tragedy. In D. Hollis & J. König (Eds.), Mountain dialogues from antiquity to modernity. (pp. 185-196). Bloomsbury. doi: 10.5040/9781350162853.ch-010 Chapter in Book - Research

Bray, C. (2020, October). Mountain scholarship and personal experience: A conversation. Mountains in Ancient Literature & Culture and their Postclassical Reception Project. Retrieved from https://mountains.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2020/10/30/mountain-scholarship-and-personal-experience-a-conversation/ Other Research Output

Bray, C. F. D. (2020). Interrogating liminality: Threatening landscapes in ancient Greek tragedy (PhD). University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland. Awarded Doctoral Degree

Bray, C. (2020). Transience and the meadow of Hippolytus: Perspectives from cognitive linguistics. Proceedings of the 41st Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) Annual Conference. (pp. 21). Retrieved from https://www.otago.ac.nz/classics/ascs-2020.html Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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