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.
Availability
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Works
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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
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
2007
Book
Sappho
Johnson, Marguerite (2007). Sappho. London, United Kingdom: Bristol Classical Press.
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.
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.
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
2024
Other Outputs
Who was Narcissus?
Johnson, Marguerite (2024, 01 31). Who was Narcissus? The Conversation
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.
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.
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
2023
Other Outputs
A very Australian scandal
Hebblethwaite, Phil (2023). A very Australian scandal. London, United Kingdom: BBC Radio.
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
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
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
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
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.
2022
Other Outputs
What is a goblin?
Johnson, Marguerite (2022, 12 14). What is a goblin? The Conversation
2022
Book Chapter
Same-sex attraction
Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Same-sex attraction. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 166-201) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-145
2022
Book Chapter
Sex and violence
Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Sex and violence. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 227-250) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-208
2022
Book Chapter
A final word
Johnson, Marguerite (2022). A final word. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 353-354) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-327
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
It's Alive! Reading Statues in Hellenistic Epigram
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alastair Blanshard
Media
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- modern occultism
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