Dr Rhiannon Evans

Biography

Qualifications: MA (Newcastle, U.K.), PhD (Southern California, Los Angeles).

Rhiannon Evans lectures in Classics, and has taught at universities in the U.K., U.S.A. and Tasmania. Her research focuses on Roman cultural history, particularly geography, colonialism and its relationship to written and material texts. Other interests include ethnicity, gender and status in the ancient Roman world, Latin literature of the imperial period and Roman satire. Her forthcoming book investigates the golden age and utopianism in Roman literature.

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Research

Rhiannon is currently involved in research for an ARC Discovery Project ‘The boundaries of Roman ethnicity: an examination of elite Roman ethno-cultural identity in the late-Republican and early-Imperial period (55 BCE -120 CE)’ with Dr. Parshia Lee-Stecum.

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Publications

Books

• Rhiannon Evans, Utopia Antiqua: Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome (Routledge, London: 2008)

Recent Conference Papers

• Rhiannon Evans, 'Greek Marble, Roman Identity', Australasian Society of Classical Studies Conference XXVIII, The University of Newcastle, NSW (February 2007)
• Rhiannon Evans, ‘Name and Shame: Luxury, Marble, and Decadence at Rome’, Ancient World Seminar, The University of Melbourne (October 2006)
• Rhiannon Evans, ‘Failing to be Roman? self-identity and fear of the enemy at Rome', Department of Classics Seminar, University of California at Los Angeles (May 2006)

Select Publications

• Rhiannon Evans, ‘The Cruel Sea?: Ocean as Boundary Marker and Transgressor in Pliny’s Roman Geography’, in Antichthon (2005 [2006]) 105-18
• Rhiannon Evans, ‘Geography without people: Mapping in Elder Pliny Historia Naturalis Books 3-6’, in Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature (2005 [2006]), 34.147-74
• Rhiannon Evans, ‘Containment and Corruption: The Discourse of Flavian Empire’ in Flavian Rome: Culture, Image, Text, eds A.J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik (Brill, Leiden, 2003), 255-276
• Rhiannon Evans, ’Searching for Paradise: Utopian landscapes in Roman antiquity’, in Arethusa (special edition, 2002), 285-307
• Rhiannon Evans, ‘Ethnography’s Freak Show: The Grotesques at the Edges of the Roman Earth’, in Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature 28.1 (1999 [2000]), 54-73

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