Rate My Professor Jane Masséglia

Dr Jane Masséglia is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester, where she has been based since 2016. She holds a DPhil, MPhil, MSt and MA from the University of Oxford, as well as a PGCE in Classics from King’s College London. Prior to her appointment at Leicester, she spent eight years in Oxford as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded Emotions Project: The Greek Paradigm under Professor Angelos Chaniotis and the AHRC-funded Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project under Professor Alison Cooley. Until August 2022 she served as Senior Scientist on the ERC LatinNow Project, overseeing public engagement activities including the award-winning VOCES POPVLI travelling exhibition.

Her research focuses on the lives of ordinary people in antiquity through combined textual and visual evidence, with particular emphasis on Greek and Roman social history, the body in the Greek world, Hellenistic material culture, and the place of Greek culture in Late Roman Britain. She has excavated at sites in Turkey including Pessinus and Çadır Höyük and contributes to the study of the Roman villa and Trojan War mosaic at Ketton. Key publications include the monograph Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society (Oxford University Press, 2015) and the forthcoming article “Troy Story: The Ketton Mosaic, Aeschylus, and Greek Mythography in Late Roman Britain” in Britannia (2025). She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2020, promoted to Associate Professor in 2022, and became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2025. As a former school teacher she regularly delivers public lectures and develops teaching resources on ancient Greek and Roman topics.