Dr Chrysanthi Demetriou

Secretary

Chrysanthi is an educator with experience in secondary and higher education. She studied Classics in Cyprus and received her MPhil from the University of Cambridge (funded by Cambridge Trusts) and her PhD from the University of Leeds (funded by a Leeds University Research Scholarship). She  has been Adjunct Tutor and course co-ordinator of Latin at the Open University of Cyprus and she has taught Latin at the University of Cyprus and the University of Leeds. She has also taught Greek and Classical civilization at the English School, Nicosia. Her research and teaching interests primarily revolve around Roman comedy, ancient commentaries and scholia, the reception of classical (Latin) literature in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, as well as the position of Latin in education, from antiquity to the present (including online education). She has co-edited (with Prof. S. Papaioannou) the  volume, Plautus’ Erudite Comedy: New Insights into the Work of a doctus poeta (Cambridge Scholars, 2020) and she has published several articles and book chapters on these topics. She is a member of the international research network RELICS, based at the University of Ghent, and member and co-ordinator of the editorial board of the Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, and she works as a teacher in Cyprus secondary education.