Bulletin
Welcome to CUCD Bulletin, the forum for raising, reflecting on and debating issues of academic and professional significance for UK classics teachers (of all sorts – ECRs, PhD students, in-post academics, visiting lecturers, hourly-paid staff etc.)
The role of editor is currently undertaken by Dr Cressida Ryan and Dr Tom Nelson. They welcome pieces of various shapes – from short reports on pedagogical events / projects, through to longer, reflective articles. Recent issues have included obituaries celebrating the lives of late colleagues. Each number is crowned by the statistics on student numbers. Do contact Cressida or Tom if you would like to offer a piece or suggest a topic. Pieces are published throughout the year, building up to a publication ‘moment’ each winter. Please stay in touch on Twitter at @cucdbulletin.
Dr Cressida Ryan
Previously I have been a school teacher and Classics outreach officer. I am presently teaching Greek in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford University. I research language pedagogy, the reception of Sophocles in the Early Modern Period, and Early Modern Neo-Latin drama.
cressida.ryan@wolfson.ox.ac.uk @cressidaryan
Dr Tom Nelson
I’m a British Academy Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford University. My research focuses on the poetics and politics of Greek poetry from the archaic period to the Hellenistic world, with a particular focus on the traces of poetic traditions beyond Ptolemaic Alexandria.
thomas.nelson@classics.ox.ac.uk @Nellenist
Back issues: Bulletin 24 (1995) – Bulletin 48 (2019)
Bulletin 53 (2024)
Cressida Ryan, Sycamore Gap: some reflections
Bulletin 52 (2023)
Charlotte Roueché and Dorothy Thompson, Joyce Reynolds (1918-2022)
Victoria Leonard, CUCD EDI Pandemic Stories Report Launch Event
Gregory Hutchinson, Peter Parsons (1936-2022)
Peter Kruschwitz, Jane F. Gardner (1934-2023)
Philip Hardie, John Bramble (1944-2023)
Mair E. Lloyd and James Robson, A Survey of Beginners’ Latin Teaching in UK Classics Departments (2019)
John Rich, Wolf Liebeschuetz (1927-2022)
Anna P. Judson, Katharine Shields and Victoria Leonard, Wikipedia in Classics Education
Steven Hunt, Initial Teacher Education for Classics. England, 2023. The Current Position
Helen Lovatt, Chair’s Report 2023
Cora Beth Fraser and Laura Jenkinson-Brown, Creativity and Classics through #ClassicsTober
Bulletin 51 (2022)
Nicholas Lane, Roger Dawe
Adrian W. Moore, Michael Inwood
Matthew Fox, What is there of Interest to Classicists at the 59th Venice Biennale?
Boris Rankov, Amanda Claridge (1949-2022)
Maria Wyke, Barbara Borg, and Lin Foxhall, REF2021: Reflections from the Sub-Panel
1. Introduction – Cressida Ryan
2. Classical Studies at the University of Lincoln – Graham Barrett
3. Teaching Latin ab initio at Lincoln: Reflections from a Post-1992 University – Michael Wuk
4. Ground-Up Change: A More Colorful Classics – London Classicists of Colour
5. Why must Classics diversify? – Chloë Choong & Hannah Parker
6. Rethinking Gender in Antiquity: Why Transgender Studies matters for the Classics – Ky Merkley
7. Classics and educational policy – an update – Arlene Holmes-Henderson
8. Classics in Scottish State Schools – George Connor
9. The future of Classics – Will Gray
10. Classics and online tutoring – Helen McVeigh
11. Classics in UK Museums: the Classical Collections Network – Victoria Donnellan and Anna Reeve
12. Letter from America – Greg Woolf
Helen Lovatt, Report on ICS/CUCD post-REF discussion and strategy event
A.J. Woodman, Ian Du Quesnay (1947-2022)
Bulletin 50 (2021)
Nicola Ernst, Julius Guthrie and Josh Littell, Pegasus Flies Onward
Steven Hunt and Arlene Holmes-Henderson, A level Classics poverty
Werner Eck, Anthony R. Birley (1937-2020)
Roland Meyer, E.J. (Ted) Kenney (1924-2019)
Abigail Buglass, Rhiannon Easterbrook, and Cressida Ryan, The Place of Languages in Classical Study and Research: discussion
Emma Woolerton, Neil Hopkinson (1957-2021)
Cora Beth Fraser,Introducing ‘Asterion’: a new initiative celebrating Neurodiversity in Classics
William Mack, Andrew Barker (1943-2021)
Barbara Goff, Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Jenny Messenger, and Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, Inclusive Classics Initiative. Report on ‘Towards a More Inclusive Classics II’ International Workshop organised by Professor Barbara Goff and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
Alexandra Morris and Debby Sneed, interviewed by Cressida Ryan, Discussing the new brief guide to disability theory and terminology in the ancient world
Bulletin 49 (2020)
Steven Hunt, School Qualifications in Classical Subjects in the UK
Helen Lovatt, Emergency online teaching help and suggestions
Hardeep Singh Dhindsa, What Studying Classics Taught me about my Relationship with Western Civilisation
Eleanor Dickey, Jasper Griffin (1937-2019)
Helen Lovatt, Language (and other) assessments in the time of COVID-19
Carol Atack and Greg Gilles, Supporting graduates and precarious academics at the start of the Coronavirus crisis
Miguel Carvalho Abrantes, Why Study Classics?
Paula James, Laurie Wilson (1926-2020)
Cheryl Morgan, Queering the Classics
Stephen Mitchell and Paul Cartledge, Anton Powell (1947-2020)
Graham Shipley and Paul Millett, Duncan Cloud (1930-2020)
Barbara Goff and Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, Inclusive Classics Initiative
John Rich and Stephen Hodkinson, John Salmon (1942-2020)
Aimee Merrydew, The History UK Pandemic Pedagogy Initiative: An Introduction for Classicists
Bruce Gibson, Jonathan Foster (1938-2020)
Robin Barber, J.J. (Jim) Coulton (1940-2020)
Matthew Leigh, Miriam Griffin (1935-2018)