Elizabeth Minchin

Biography

I am a Classicist who specializes in the Homeric epics, with a particular focus on cognition and memory: I am interested in how an oral poet used the resources of his memory as he sang one of these long epics (and what evidence of this the poems offer us); what an oral poet understood about autobiographical memory, spatial memory, and emotional intelligence and how he renders his understanding of these in his poems. I have worked also on landscape and memory, with particular reference to the landscapes of the Troad on the Gallipoli Peninsula.