Shirley Barlow

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Shirley Ann Barlow is a classicist specialising in the study of Classical drama and one of the founding members of the department of classics at the University of Kent.

Career[]

Barlow started at the University of Kent in 1965 as a Lecturer in Classics. She eventually gained promotion to Senior Lecturer and was, subsequently, head of the Classics department there.[1][2] She was Master of Eliot College, Kent and a seminar room in Eliot College is named after her.[2][3] One of her students in 1986 was the comedian Alan Davies who described Barlow, in his 2009 book My favourite people and me: 1978-1988, as the best teacher he had at Kent whilst describing her as "engaging, and knowledgable and [someone who] inspired commitment to her subject, classical drama".[4]

Barlow was a member of the Soroptimist International organisation and acted as the president of the Canterbury branch in 1986-1987.[2] She was awarded an Honorary Fellowship to the University College London in 1988.[1]

Selected publications[]

  • Barlow, S. A. 1971. The Imagery of Euripides. London.
  • Barlow, S. A. 1981. "Sophocles' Ajax and Euripides' Heracles", Ramus 10(2), 112-128.
  • Barlow, S. A. 1982. "Structure and Dramatic Realism in Euripides' Heracles", Greece & Rome" 29(2) 115-125.
  • Barlow, S. A. 1986. Euripides Trojan Women. Warminster, Aris & Phillips.
  • Barlow, S. A. 1989. "Stereotype and Reversal in Euripides' Medea", Greece & Rome 36(2), 158-171.
  • Barlow, S. A. 1996. Euripides: Heracles. Warminster, Aris & Phillips.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "List of Honorary Fellows". UCL. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "SI CANTERBURY PRESIDENTS & CHAIN OF OFFICE". Soroptomist International. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Eliot Shirley Barlow room". University of Kent. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  4. ^ Davies, Alan (2009). "1986". My favourite people and me: 1978-1988.
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