Amaranth Feuth is a postdoctoral researcher at LUCAS working within the Anchoring Innovation project. She holds a doctorate in classical receptions from the University of Leiden and is currently working on classical receptions in English-language literature.

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Fields of interest

Classics
Classical receptions
Black Classicism
English literature
Intertextuality
Metaliterature
Metaphor

Research

How are classical receptions in the works of contemporary female, Black, American writers anchored in classical literature? What is the relationship between the education of Black female authors such as Toni Morrison, Rita Dove, Harryette Mullen, and Donika Kelly, and their receptions of the classics? I try to gain insight into and enhance awareness of these issues as a female, white scholar in Europe. For more information, see: https://anchoringinnovation.nl/projects/black-classicisms-and-educational-backgrounds.

Grants and awards

NWO Doctoral Grant for Teachers

Curriculum Vitae

PhD in Classical Receptions. Leiden University, obtained in 2022.

MA Education in English. Leiden University, obtained in 2013.

MA English Language and Literature. Leiden University, obtained in 2013.

CELTA (teaching qualification Cambridge Certificate). British Language Training Centre, Amsterdam, obtained in 2007.

MA equivalent Education in Classics. Leiden University, obtained in 1997.

MA equivalent Classics. Leiden University, obtained in 1994. Major: ancient-Greek tragedy.

BA/MA programme in ancient-Greek tragedy. Exeter University, UK, 1993-4.

Selected publications

Amaranth Feuth. The Poet and the Underworld: Metaliterary Katabasis in Eavan Boland’s “The Journey”, Derek Walcott’s Omeros, and Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills, 2022. PhD thesis.

Publications