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Nick Lowe (classicist)

Nick Lowe (classicist)

British classical scholar and film critic

Nick Lowe (/loʊ/; born 1956) is a British classical scholar and film critic.

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He is a reader in classics in the Department of Classics and Philosophy at Royal Holloway, a constituent college of the University of London, with interests including narratology and reception of Greek antiquity in historical fiction.[1]

Lowe is also a film reviewer for the science-fiction magazine Interzone, writing the column Mutant Popcorn since the mid-1980s;[2] he won a British Science Fiction Association Award for the column in 2009.[3] The 25th anniversary of his column was celebrated by a special issue of Interzone in 2010, including reprints of his first reviews and an interview with Lowe.[4]

Early life and education

He was born in Manchester, England, and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, before going to read classics at the University of Cambridge,[5] where he received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy.[6] His doctoral advisor was Geoffrey Kirk.[5]

Career

He taught classics at three different colleges in the University of London before being appointed lecturer in Greek literature at Royal Holloway.[5]

Books

  • Theatre Ancient and Modern (2000), edited with Hardwick, L., Ireland, S. & Macintosh, F., Open University Press.
  • The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative (2000), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[7]
  • Comedy (2008). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics).[8]
  • Erôs in Ancient Greece (2013), edited with Sanders, E., Thumiger, C. & Carey, C., Oxford University Press.[9]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Dr Nick Lowe". Researcher profiles. Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  2. [2]
    Sleight, Graham (26 February 2009). "Adaptation". Locus Roundtable. Locus. Archived from the original on 24 February 2017.
  3. [3]
    2009 British Science Fiction Association Award for Mutant Popcorn (see BSFA Awards 2009 Winners).
  4. [4]
    Fratz, D. Douglas (2012). "Interzone #230, September-October 2010". SF Site Reviews.
  5. [5]
    "Committee for 2013". John D. Criticos Prize. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015.
  6. [6]
    Classicists in British Universities.
  7. [7]
    Reviews of The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative:
  8. [8]
    Stürner, Ferdinand (2012). "Review of Comedy" (PDF). Ancient History Bulletin. 2: 111–112.
  9. [9]
    Reviews of Erôs in Ancient Greece:
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