Members - Dr. Chiara Meccariello

Main Research Areas

• Greek Papyrology
• Greek Drama
• Greek Mythography
• Ancient Literary Criticism
• Paraliterary Texts
• Ancient Biography
• Women in Antiquity

Academic Career

• Since August 2017 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre 1136, conducting research on "Gods and Heroes in the Classroom. Myth, Religion and Education in Graeco-Roman Egypt"
• 2016–2017 Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford Research Member of Common Room, Wolfson College, Oxford
• 2014–2016 Research Assistant in Greek Papyrology and Digital Humanities, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
• 2013–2014 Ernst Mach Postdoctoral Fellow in Greek Papyrology, University of Vienna

Academic Degrees

• 2009–2013 PhD in Greek and Latin Philology and Literature, University of Pisa, Italy
• 2010–2012 Visiting Student, University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics
• 2003–2008 Diploma di Licenza in Ancient History and Classical Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
• 2006–2008 Master’s Degree in Classics, University of Pisa
• 2003–2006 Bachelor’s Degree in Classics, University of Pisa

Additional Training

• 2014 Programming: Introduction to Python, University of Oxford
• 2013 Course in papyrus conservation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
• 2012 International Winter School "The Greeks in Egypt. From Alexandria to the Fayum", German Archaeological Institute, Cairo/ Bibliotheca Alexandrina/University of Alexandria

Scholarships and Grants

• 2016–2017 John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund for the project Learning (from) Mythology: Religion, Multiculturalism and School Education in Graeco-Roman Egypt, with Daniela Colomo, University of Oxford
• 2017 Travel grant awarded by the Craven Committee, University of Oxford, for attendance of the Annual Conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, Haifa University, Israel
• 2016 Travel grant awarded by the Craven Committee, University of Oxford, for attendance of The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Scholars’ Colloquium, University of Toronto, Canada
• 2015–2016 UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant for the project Broken Scenes: Resurrecting Ancient Fragmented Voices Through Animation, with D. Obbink and J. H. Brusuelas, University of Oxford
• 2013–2014 Ernst Mach Grant by the Austrian Agency for International Mobility and Cooperation in Education and Research for postdoctoral research
• 2013 Three grants awarded by the Universities of Pavia, Genoa and Pisa, Italy, for thesis publication
• 2012 Grant awarded by the German Archaeological Institute for attendance of the International Winter School “The Greeks in Egypt. From Alexandria to the Fayum” (Cairo, Alexandria, Fayum, Egypt)
• 2010–2011 Scholarship awarded by the University of Pisa for research stay at the University of Oxford
• 2009–2011 Three-year doctoral scholarship, University of Pisa
• 2003–2008 Five-year scholarship for Bachelor’s and Master’s studies, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa