Professor Roderick Beaton
Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, Language & Literature
Leverhulme Fellowship, 2009-2012
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2517
Email rod.beaton@kcl.ac.uk
Address Centre for Hellenic Studies
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Research interests
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‘Historical poetics’ of the novel from ancient to modern times
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Greek national identity in the nineteenth century
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Byron and the Greek Revolution
Biography
Roderick Beaton graduated from Cambridge with a first degree in English Literature and a PhD in Modern Greek. He came to King’s in 1981 as Lecturer in Modern Greek Language and Literature, and in 1988 was appointed to the Koraes Chair. He has several times served as Head of Department and has been actively involved with the Centre for Hellenic Studies since its establishment in 1989 and in the Comparative Literature programme.
From October 2009 to September 2012 he has been appointed to a Major Leverhulme Fellowship, to work on a project entitled Byron’s War: The Greek Revolution and the English Romantic Imagination. During this period he will not be teaching, but will continue to supervise doctoral students.