Featured Scholar: January 2025

Dr. David Larmour (Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures)

What are you watching/streaming?

Very little these days.

What games are you playing?

Chess or cards, once in a blue moon.

What are you listening to?

The Ruth Rendell BBC Drama Collection, The Ambassadors by Henry James and The Complete Symphonies of Niels Gade. Also podcasts or reviews of books about Time and Space, Dark Matter, Black Holes etc.

What are you reading?

The Biography of William Golding by John Carey and The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepiece Thackeray.

What are you writing/thinking about?

Ancient Greek combat sports and agonism, and their contemporary versions; the power of narratives of Nostalgia, especially in connection with experiences of loss, displacement, exile and the border zones of empires; and whether the slow death of Juvenalian satire in the contemporary Anglosphere is inevitable.