Polly Stoker

Dr Polly Stoker is Lecturer in Classical History and Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) in Classical Studies. She teaches on a range of modules covering Greek and Roman literature and culture and its legacy. She is a specialist in women's creative responses to classical literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 

Polly was awarded her PhD in Classics from the University of Birmingham in 2019 with a thesis titled 'Classical reception in contemporary women's writing: emerging strategies from resistance to indeterminacy. She went on to hold the position of Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham before joining the University of Winchester in 2021. The Classical Studies team is part of the School of Humanities.

Polly's current research considers the use of classical images, texts, and ideas in new media, and examines what this ongoing engagement with – and construction of - classical antiquity can reveal about the here and now. This work takes place at the intersections of (broadly speaking) cultural and literary history, cultural studies, classical reception studies, gender studies, and media studies.

• Epic poetry
• Tragedy and comedy
• Classical Reception