Lorna Hardwick

Lorna Hardwick is professor emerita of classical studies at the Open University. She is a leading authority on classical reception studies and has published several books and articles on the subject, as well being the first editor of the Classical Receptions Journal.

Career In addition to teaching at the Open University, Hardwick has taught at University College London. Hardwick's publications in the field of classical reception include Translating Words, Translating Cultures (2000) and New Surveys in the Classics: Reception Studies (2003) as well as a number of articles on drama and poetry. and co-series editor of 'The Classical Presences series' published by Oxford University Press.

In 2014, she was a signatory in an open letter published in The Guardian expressing concern at the Open University's closure of regional offices.

Select bibliography Rome in the Late Republic (with Michael Crawford, 1985, revised 1999); For 'Anyone who wishes': classical studies in the Open University, 1971-2002 (in The Teaching of Classics ed. James Morwood, Cambridge University Press, 2003) Translating words, Translating Cultures (Duckworth, 2004); A Companion to Classical Receptions (with Christopher Stray, 2007) Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds (with Carol Gillespie, 2007) ‘Voices of Trauma: Remaking Aeschylus in the Twentieth Century’, (in S. E. Constantinidis, ed., The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers)