Marianna Leszczyk

I am a DPhil candidate in Classical Reception at the Faculty of Classics. My doctoral project—which I have spoken about at the OCCT Discussion Group—explores the reception of Graeco-Roman antiquity in the prose of the Polish author Zbigniew Herbert. Tracing Herbert’s concern with questions of intermediality, the representation of material reality and its embodied experience, and the relationship between present and past, my project investigates if Herbert’s essayistic writings could be seen as loci of not just reception, but also reception theory in its own right. My other academic interests, similarly cutting across antiquity and modernity, include trauma studies, cultural hybridity, and points of friction in cultural and historical narratives.