Elizabeth Minchin

Elizabeth Hume Minchin is an Australian Classical philologist and university teacher.

Your first degree she completed at the University of Sydney. Subsequently, she taught Latin, French and Indonesian at Narrabundah College, Canberra. In 1983 she graduated from the Australian National University in Canberra initially graduated as a Master of Arts before she received her doctorate in 1989 in Classics. Her doctoral thesis is about the role of memory in the composition of the Homeric epics. Even with this work they put their focus on the study of Homeric epics as part of Oral Poetry. My research approach is characterized by the transmission of cognitive psychology and sociolinguistic approaches to the theory of narrative Homeric epics.

Elizabeth Minchin is Professor of Classical Studies at the Australian National University. She has received the Carrick Award for Australian University Teaching Award in the category " Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning " 2007. In 2010 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Since 2007 she is one of two editors of the magazine Antichthon, which is published by the Australasian Society for Classical Studies.

Writings (selection )

• Homer and the Resources of Memory: Some Applications of Cognitive Theory to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Oxford University Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-198-15257-4.
• Traditional grammar. An introductory course book for students of Latin and Ancient Greek. ANU School of Language Studies, Classics Program, Canberra 2002.
• Homeric voices: discourse, memory, gender. Oxford University Press, New York 2007, ISBN 0-199-28012-6.