Melissa Funke
Title: Associate Professor
Office: 4G08
Building: Graham Hall
Email: m.funke@uwinnipeg.ca
Degrees:
BA Classics and English Literature, University of Winnipeg
MA University of British Columbia
PhD University of Washington
Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research, Harvard University, Spring 2015
Research Interests:
Greek tragic fragments, gender and sexuality in antiquity, Greek literature of the Roman Empire, Greek colour terminology
Publications:
Phryne: A Life in Fragments (monograph), Bloomsbury (In press, Winter 2024).
“Epistolarity, Eroticism, and Agency: The Female Voice in Fictional Love Letters”. Ancient Love Letters. Tiziana Drago and Owen Hodkinson, eds. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023: 223-235.
“Building a Narrative: Uses and Misuses of Antiquity at the Manitoba Legislature”, Memorial Reckoning and the Fall of Imperial Icons, special issue of Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition 14.2 (2022): 11-33.
"Phryne." In Oxford Classical Dictionary, digital ed. Oxford University Press. 2022.
“A Script for a Sixth-Century Mime (P. Oxy. 5189)”, co-authored with C.W. Marshall, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 59 (2019): 460-92.