{"product_id":"critical-ancient-world-studies-the-case-for-forgetting-classics-paperback","title":"Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMathura Umachandran\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMarchella Ward\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume explores and elucidates Critical Ancient World Studies, a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern 'West'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMathura Umachandran \u003c\/strong\u003eis a Tamil scholar from London, trained at Oxford and Princeton in classics. They teach ancient Greek at the University of Exeter and dream of ways of making more just knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarchella Ward \u003c\/strong\u003e(Chella) has been Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University since September 2022, when she left Oxford to go in search of a more egalitarian approach to the study of the ancient world. Before that she was the Tinsley Outreach Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford, where she split her time equally between postdoctoral research in classical reception and work to oppose the inequalities, inequities and biases that structure access to higher education. Her research has focused on disability justice and classical reception and on attempts to find non-hierarchical, non-hegemonic and non-linear ways to figure ancient influence. Her writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eClassical Receptions Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eClassical Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003eand across various blogs and other open access platforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 27, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51781785157920,"sku":"9781032120119","price":93.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6fc5ac4fb4be8c273fe396ad1ed2c710.webp?v=1780557654","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/critical-ancient-world-studies-the-case-for-forgetting-classics-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}