HON. PRESIDENT 2026-27: Professor Eleanor Dickey F.B.A.

Eleanor is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Academia Europaea. Born in the USA and educated at Bryn Mawr and Oxford, she has previously taught at the University of Ottawa in Canada, Columbia University in New York, the University of Exeter, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She is the author of ten books and over a hundred other scholarly works, including Learning Latin the Ancient Way, The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana, Introduction to the Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose, and Ancient Greek Scholarship. 

Eleanor is also the founder and director of the Reading Ancient Schoolroom, a charity providing historically accurate re-enactments of ancient schools for modern children, and teaches regularly at the JACT Greek Summer School at Bryanston. 

CHAIR OF COUNCIL: PROFESSOR JUDITH MOSSMAN

Judith is Professor Emerita (formerly Pro Vice-Chancellor, Arts and Humanities) at the University of Coventry and has previously held the post of Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham, and fellowships at Trinity College, Dublin and Christ Church, Oxford. She is also Vice President of the Hellenic Society. Judith specialises in Greek literature in the fifth century BC and the second/third century AD and is the author of two books and a number of edited volumes and articles on Euripides and Plutarch.

HON. SECRETARY: PROF. SHARON MARSHALL

Sharon is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Education in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, where she has taught for over ten years. Her teaching and research centres largely on Latin language and literature and she is particularly interested in the reception of classical literature among female authors in sixteenth-century France. Having been fortunate enough to attend a state school that offered Latin, she is committed to promoting the study of classical subjects at all levels in schools across the UK. Sharon also sits on the Standing Committee of the Council of University Classical Departments, where she holds the role of Statistics Officer and is responsible for the annual collection and publication of statistics on Classics in UK universities.

GRANTS OFFICER: SANA VAN DAL

Sana graduated with a BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge in 2005. After a short stint teaching English in France, she returned to London where she pursued a career in Public Relations for the next nine years. Having decided to leave the corporate world, she gained an MA in History of Art from University College London in 2014 and then a PGCE in Latin with Classics in 2016. She has been working as a secondary school teacher ever since, and is currently Head of Classics at Trinity School in Croydon. She is particularly interested in the potential of Classics to raise discussions of EDI issues, and passionate about helping students from all backgrounds feel included in their study of Classics.

PARTNERSHIPS OFFICER: DR CHARLOTTE PARKYN

Lottie is the Director for Research and Partnerships at the University of Notre Dame London, where she also teaches courses on Greek tragedy, Roman Britain, and research methodologies. Her academic journey began with a passion for Classical Civilisation at school, where she was drawn to the subject’s rich interdisciplinarity. This early fascination led her to explore the intersection of her two greatest interests: theatre and the ancient world.

She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Birmingham, followed by an MA in Greek Theatre Production and Directing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Lottie went on to earn her PhD from King’s College London, focusing on fragmentary Greek drama and its reception in contemporary theatre. Lottie is deeply committed to public engagement, working to make the ancient world accessible beyond academia through theatre productions, curated workshops, and public talks.