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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2022
Book Chapter
Sappho and the feminist movement twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Sappho and the feminist movement twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A companion to Greek lyric. (pp. 484-495) edited by Laura Swift. Hoboken, NJ United States: John Wiley and Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119122661.ch33
2021
Book Chapter
Sappho in the salons
Johnson, Marguerite (2021). Sappho in the salons. Remembering Paris in text and film. (pp. 59-76) edited by Alistair Rolls and Marguerite Johnson. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect Books. doi: 10.1386/9781789384185_3
2021
Book Chapter
Introduction: Remembering in Paris and Paris as remembering
Rolls, Alistair and Johnson, Marguerite (2021). Introduction: Remembering in Paris and Paris as remembering. Remembering Paris in Text and Film. (pp. 1-20) London, United Kingdom: Intellect.
2021
Book Chapter
Baudelaire and the classical tradition: Virgil, Ovid and Sappho in Paris
Johnson, Marguerite (2021). Baudelaire and the classical tradition: Virgil, Ovid and Sappho in Paris. Remembering Paris in text and film. (pp. 39-58) edited by Alistair Rolls and Marguerite Johnson. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect Books. doi: 10.1386/9781789384185_2
2021
Journal Article
Teaching entangled Australian sexual histories: Pedagogy and approaches
Bennett, James and Johnson, Marguerite (2021). Teaching entangled Australian sexual histories: Pedagogy and approaches. History Compass, 19 (10) e12690, 1-9. doi: 10.1111/hic3.12690
2021
Other Outputs
Friday essay: rethinking the myth of Daphne, a woman who chooses eternal silence over sexual assault
Johnson, Marguerite and Koosmen, Tanika (2021, 06 24). Friday essay: rethinking the myth of Daphne, a woman who chooses eternal silence over sexual assault The Conversation
2021
Book Chapter
Sappho in Australia and New Zealand
Johnson, Marguerite (2021). Sappho in Australia and New Zealand. The Cambridge companion to Sappho. (pp. 408-422) edited by P. J. Finglass and Adrian Kelly. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316986974.030
2021
Book Chapter
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sapphos in France, England, and the United States
Johnson, Marguerite (2021). Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sapphos in France, England, and the United States. The Cambridge companion to Sappho. (pp. 361-374) edited by P. J. Finglass and Adrian Kelly. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316986974.027
2021
Other Outputs
Friday essay: why Rosaleen Norton, ‘the witch of Kings Cross’, was a groundbreaking bohemian
Johnson, Marguerite (2021, 02 04). Friday essay: why Rosaleen Norton, ‘the witch of Kings Cross’, was a groundbreaking bohemian The Conversation
2021
Journal Article
Performing Theocritus's Pharmakeutria : Revealing Hellenistic Witchcraft
Johnson, Marguerite and Kimball, Nicole (2021). Performing Theocritus's Pharmakeutria : Revealing Hellenistic Witchcraft. Arethusa, 54 (2), 163-184.
2021
Journal Article
Catullus’ fantastical memories – Poem 68 and writing trauma
Johnson, Marguerite (2021). Catullus’ fantastical memories – Poem 68 and writing trauma. Antichthon, 55, 136-154. doi: 10.1017/ann.2021.8
2021
Book
Remembering Paris in text and film
Alistair Rolls and Marguerite Johnson eds. (2021). Remembering Paris in text and film. London, United Kingdom: Intellect Books. doi: 10.1386/9781789384185
2021
Edited Outputs
Antichthon: Special Issue: Catullus in the Twenty-first Century
Antichthon: Special Issue: Catullus in the Twenty-first Century. (2021). 55
2021
Journal Article
Introduction
Johnson, Marguerite and O'Hearn, Leah (2021). Introduction. Antichthon, 55, 1-5. doi: 10.1017/ann.2021.11
2020
Other Outputs
Santa was a lady once — is it time to bring her back?
Johnson, Marguerite (2020, 12 07). Santa was a lady once — is it time to bring her back? The Conversation
2020
Other Outputs
Scarabs, phalluses, evil eyes — how ancient amulets tried to ward off disease
Johnson, Marguerite (2020, 09 15). Scarabs, phalluses, evil eyes — how ancient amulets tried to ward off disease The Conversation
2019
Other Outputs
Hidden women of history: Neaera, the Athenian child slave raised to be a courtesan
Johnson, Marguerite (2019, 12 03). Hidden women of history: Neaera, the Athenian child slave raised to be a courtesan The Conversation
2019
Conference Publication
Classical Myths in Australian Colonial Art: 1788-1930s
Johnson, Marguerite (2019). Classical Myths in Australian Colonial Art: 1788-1930s. International Symposium on Mythology, Ardahan, Turkey, 2-5 May 2019. Ardahan, Turkey: Ardahan University.
2019
Book Chapter
Wesley Enoch’s Black Medea
Ewans, Michael and Johnson, Marguerite (2019). Wesley Enoch’s Black Medea. Antipodean antiquities. (pp. 73-86) edited by Marguerite Johnson. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781350021266.ch-005
2019
Book Chapter
Black Out: Classicizing Indigeneity in Australia and New Zealand
Johnson, Marguerite (2019). Black Out: Classicizing Indigeneity in Australia and New Zealand. Antipodean antiquities. (pp. 13-28) edited by Marguerite Johnson. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781350021266.ch-001
Supervision
Availability
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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
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Doctor Philosophy
It's Alive! Reading Statues in Hellenistic Epigram
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alastair Blanshard
Media
Enquiries
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- ancient sexuality and gender
- Classical Reception Studies
- magic in antiquity
- modern occultism
- modernity and sexual histories
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