• Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer)
  M.A., MPhil., PhD. (Cantab.).

Personal Profile:

Teaching

Undergraduate: (2011-2012)

• Greek Culture and Society
• Hellenistic World
• The Ancient World in Film and Modern Culture

Postgraduate:

• Taugh MA in Ancient Material and Visual Culture
  

Recent research degrees supervised include:

• Classical models in eighteenth-century opera (PhD)
• Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition (PhD)
• Sexual Violence in Greek Vase Painting (PhD)
• James Stuart and his influences; Morality in Greek Tragedy; Comedy in Greek Tragedy; Leo Strauss and Plato (MAs)

Research

Daniel is interested in all areas of Greek and Latin literature. His research specifically focuses on the intellectual and cultural reception of classical antiquity from the eighteenth century to the present. He has published a book examining the significance of ancient sexuality for modern German and British historiography and fiction, and has edited a volume on modern black-Atlantic receptions of the ancient world. He has also published articles on the impact of classical antiquity on a number of German and French intellectuals (Winckelmann, Freud and Derrida); and on nineteenth-century classical scholarship (Walter Headlam).

Forthcoming are 1), a monograph about the impact of ancient notions about sex on modern ideas about pleasure, eroticism and sexuality; and 2), a monograph that examines the significance of Greek love for the modern invention of homosexuality in the context of new-imperialist, fin-de-siecle culture (looking at Richard Burton, John Addington Symonds, Henry Havelock Ellis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, John Gray and Edward Carpenter).

Daniel has supervised doctoral dissertations on the classical tradition in the novels of Toni Morrison and on the reception of Greek tragedy in eighteenth-century opera. He has also co-supervised a doctoral disssertation on sexual violence on Greek vase painting. He welcomes graduate students interested pursuing work in classical literature, literary theory, the history of gender and sexuality, classics and aesthetics, and classical reception studies.

Conference

In November 2008, Daniel organised African Athena an international conference that reconsidered Martin Bernal's work Black Athena twenty years after it was originally published. Developing from this, in December 2010, he also organised an interdisciplinary workshop, funded by the British Academy, called "Theory for a Global Age: The Place of Africa?", that examined contemporary African literary culture in today's supposedly globalised world.

Publications

Books

• Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity (Oxford University Press, 2011)
• African Athena: New Agendas co-edited with Gurminder Bhambra and Tessa Roynon (Oxford University Press, 2011)

Forthcoming books (with contracts)

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  Sex: Antiquity and Its Legacy (IB Tauris/OUP, 2013/14)
• Imperious Passions: Greek Love, Empire and Orientalism at the Fin de Siecle (Bloomsbury, 2013/14)

Book Chapters