Shushma Malik | |
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Occupation | Assistant Professor of Classics |
Academic background | |
Education | PhD., 2013, University of Bristol |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Sub-discipline | Classical reception studies,Roman imperial history |
Institutions | University of Cambridge University of Roehampton University of Queensland University of Manchester |
Shushma Malik is an ancient historian. She is Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Cambridge and the first Onassis Classics Fellow at Newnham College,Cambridge. [1]
Malik studied at the University of Bristol,completing a PhD in Classics and Ancient History in 2013. [2] She joined the University of Cambridge in 2022,having previously lectured at the University of Manchester,the University of Queensland,and the University of Roehampton. [3]
Her research focuses on the Roman emperors,particularly the emperor Nero,and on how Roman emperors were imagined in later cultures. [4] Her monograph,The Nero-Antichrist:founding and fashioning a paradigm, described as "a sophisticated [...] reception history of Nero’s legacy," [5] was published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press. [6]
Malik is noted for her media appearances and outreach. She has twice appeared on In Our Time (radio series),discussing Tiberius in 2023, [7] and Nero in 2019. [8] She has appeared on several documentaries as an expert contributor, [9] and her article on Statecraft and the Roman Republic was published in the programme for the National Theatre's production of Coriolanus. [10] While a lecturer at the University of Queensland,she become known for her Mythbusting Ancient Rome series,written with Caillan Davenport and published on The Conversation. [11]
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