Dr Andrea Doda
Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow
After completing a BA and MSt at Oxford, I earned a DPhil in Classics under the supervision of Christopher Metcalf, focusing on Homer and comparative ancient epic. Following a short-term postdoctoral position at Heidelberg, I taught Greek and Latin language at Balliol College, Oxford. I am now working at Trinity College Dublin as a Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow. My research explores the question of oral composition-in-performance from a comparative perspective. By examining epic texts from three ancient Indo-European traditions (Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, and Old English), I aim to reconstruct a technique of versification that could account for the composition of specific sequences within these texts. My current projects also incorporate neuroscientific approaches and technologies to further illuminate the dynamics of oral composition.
Selected Publications
- (2023) ‘A Tale of Two Heroes: A Shared Story Pattern in the Iliad and the Mahābhārata’, Journal of Indo-European Studies 51: 1-33.
- ‘Further Observations on the Death-and-Revenge Story Pattern in the Iliad and the Aethiopis’, Journal of Indo-European Studies (forthcoming)
- ‘Hierarchy and Gender in the Homeric Poems’, Mnemosyne (forthcoming)
- ‘Ovid and the Inefficacy of Medicine: A Medical Statement in the Metamorphoses’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie (forthcoming)
- ‘Similes in Homer and the Sanskrit Epics’. In: A: Ercolani, S. Macrì, A. Piergrossi (eds.), Rethinking Orality IV (forthcoming)