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Honorary Professor Marguerite Johnson
Honorary Professor

Marguerite Johnson

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Overview

Background

Marguerite Johnson is a cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, specialising in sexuality and gender, particularly in the poetry of Sappho, Catullus, and Ovid, as well as magical traditions in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. She also researches Classical Reception Studies, with a regular focus on Australia. In addition to ancient world studies, Marguerite is interested in sexual histories in modernity as well as magic in the west more broadly, especially the practices and art of Australian witch, Rosaleen Norton. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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Works

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140 works between 1997 and 2024

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Featured

2022

Book

Sexuality in Greek and Roman society and literature: a sourcebook

Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Sexuality in Greek and Roman society and literature: a sourcebook. 2nd ed. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048

Sexuality in Greek and Roman society and literature: a sourcebook

Featured

2016

Book

Ovid on cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and related texts

Johnson, Marguerite (2016). Ovid on cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and related texts. New York, NY, United States: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781474218696.0008

Ovid on cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and related texts

Featured

2007

Book

Sappho

Johnson, Marguerite (2007). Sappho. London, United Kingdom: Bristol Classical Press.

Sappho

2024

Book

Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction Stories of Repentance and Defiance

James E. Bennett and Marguerite Johnson eds. (2024). Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction Stories of Repentance and Defiance. Library of Gender and Popular Culture, London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction Stories of Repentance and Defiance

2024

Book Chapter

Introduction

Bennett, James E. and Johnson, Marguerite (2024). Introduction. Gay conversion practices in memoir, film and fiction: stories of repentance and defiance. (pp. 1-37) edited by James E. Bennett and Marguerite Johnson. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

Introduction

2024

Journal Article

Baudelaire's Paris looking at Africa, and vice versa

Rolls, Alistair and Johnson, Marguerite (2024). Baudelaire's Paris looking at Africa, and vice versa. Dix-Neuf, 28 (2), 196-207. doi: 10.1080/14787318.2024.2334112

Baudelaire's Paris looking at Africa, and vice versa

2024

Other Outputs

Who was Narcissus?

Johnson, Marguerite (2024, 01 31). Who was Narcissus? The Conversation

Who was Narcissus?

2024

Book Chapter

Conclusion

Bennett, James E. and Johnson, Marguerite (2024). Conclusion. Gay conversion practices in memoir, film and fiction: stories of repentance and defiance. (pp. 262-272) edited by James E. Bennett and Marguerite Johnson. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

Conclusion

2024

Book Chapter

Three films, conversion practices and the paratext: I am Michael, Michael Lost and Found, and Once Gay – Matthew and Friends

Johnson, Marguerite (2024). Three films, conversion practices and the paratext: I am Michael, Michael Lost and Found, and Once Gay – Matthew and Friends. Gay conversion practices in memoir, film and fiction: stories of repentance and defiance. (pp. 125-153) edited by James E. Bennett and Marguerite Johnson. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

Three films, conversion practices and the paratext: I am Michael, Michael Lost and Found, and Once Gay – Matthew and Friends

2023

Journal Article

Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against <i>ornatrices</i> in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?

Johnson, Marguerite (2023). Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 66 (2), 84-96. doi: 10.1093/bics/qbae020

Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against <i>ornatrices</i> in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?

2023

Other Outputs

A very Australian scandal

Hebblethwaite, Phil (2023). A very Australian scandal. London, United Kingdom: BBC Radio.

A very Australian scandal

2023

Other Outputs

Contaminations, revisions, reinventions: how cultures, ancient and modern, have influenced each other

Johnson, Marguerite (2023, 09 17). Contaminations, revisions, reinventions: how cultures, ancient and modern, have influenced each other The Conversation

Contaminations, revisions, reinventions: how cultures, ancient and modern, have influenced each other

2023

Journal Article

Georges Cuvier’s autopsy report on Sara Baartman: a translation and commentary

Johnson, Marguerite and Rolls, Alistair (2023). Georges Cuvier’s autopsy report on Sara Baartman: a translation and commentary. Terrae Incognitae, 55 (2), 170-195. doi: 10.1080/00822884.2023.2227480

Georges Cuvier’s autopsy report on Sara Baartman: a translation and commentary

2023

Other Outputs

‘I gave birth but did not bring a child to life’: for millenia, women expressed their pain through a belief in demonic, female monsters

Johnson, Marguerite (2023, 07 04). ‘I gave birth but did not bring a child to life’: for millenia, women expressed their pain through a belief in demonic, female monsters The Conversation

‘I gave birth but did not bring a child to life’: for millenia, women expressed their pain through a belief in demonic, female monsters

2023

Book Chapter

Mansplaining with Ovid: Ars-cultus-munditia and the 'Natural' body

Johnson, Marguerite (2023). Mansplaining with Ovid: Ars-cultus-munditia and the 'Natural' body. Body technologies in the Greco-Roman world: technosôma, gender and sex. (pp. 161-180) edited by Maria Gerolemou and Giulia Maria Chesi. Liverpool, United Kingdom: Liverpool University Press.

Mansplaining with Ovid: Ars-cultus-munditia and the 'Natural' body

2023

Book Chapter

Warfare, violence, rape, revenge: Jane Holland’s Boudicca & CO

Johnson, Marguerite (2023). Warfare, violence, rape, revenge: Jane Holland’s Boudicca & CO. Revisiting rape in antiquity: sexualized violence in Greek and Roman worlds. (pp. 247-264) edited by Susan Deacy, José Malheiro Magalhães and Jean Zacharski Menzies. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781350099234.ch-015

Warfare, violence, rape, revenge: Jane Holland’s Boudicca & CO

2022

Other Outputs

What is a goblin?

Johnson, Marguerite (2022, 12 14). What is a goblin? The Conversation

What is a goblin?

2022

Book Chapter

Taboos, alterity and marginal activities

Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Taboos, alterity and marginal activities. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 271-315) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-262

Taboos, alterity and marginal activities

2022

Book Chapter

Introduction

Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Introduction. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 1-22) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-1

Introduction

2022

Book Chapter

The divine sphere

Johnson, Marguerite (2022). The divine sphere. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 23-55) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-2

The divine sphere

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  • ancient sexuality and gender
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  • magic in antiquity
  • modern occultism
  • modernity and sexual histories

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