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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2011
Journal Article
Review of Martial. P. Howell. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2009.
Johnson, Marguerite (2011). Review of Martial. P. Howell. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2009.. The Classical Review, 61 (1), 310-310.
2011
Journal Article
'Toothless intellectuals,' 'the misery of the poor,'' poetry after Auschwitz,' and the white, middle-class audience: The moral perils of Kosky and Wright's The Women of Troy (or, how do we regard the pain of others?)
Johnson, Marguerite (2011). 'Toothless intellectuals,' 'the misery of the poor,'' poetry after Auschwitz,' and the white, middle-class audience: The moral perils of Kosky and Wright's The Women of Troy (or, how do we regard the pain of others?). Didaskalia, 8, 65-74.
2010
Book Chapter
Sappho
Marguerite Johnson (2010). Sappho. The Literary Encyclopedia. (pp. 1-1) London, United Kingdom: The Literary Dictionary Company.
2010
Journal Article
Review of Greek magic: ancient, medieval and modern. J. C. B. Petropoulos (Ed.)
Johnson, Marguerite (2010). Review of Greek magic: ancient, medieval and modern. J. C. B. Petropoulos (Ed.). The Classical Review, 60 (1), 187-189.
2010
Book Chapter
Marked bodies: divine, human, and bestial
Johnson, Marguerite (2010). Marked bodies: divine, human, and bestial. A cultural history of the human body in Antiquity. (pp. 185-215) edited by Daniel Garrison. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg Publishing.
2010
Journal Article
Review of Witches, Isis and narrative: approaches to magic in Apuleius’ Metamorphosis. Stavros Frangoulidis. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Johnson, Marguerite (2010). Review of Witches, Isis and narrative: approaches to magic in Apuleius’ Metamorphosis. Stavros Frangoulidis. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2008.. The Classical Bulletin, 82, 105-107.
2009
Book Chapter
Sulpicia
Johnson, Marguerite (2009). Sulpicia. The Literary Encyclopedia. (pp. 1-1) London, United Kingdom: The Literary Dictionary Company.
2009
Journal Article
Review of Witchcraft and belief in early modern Scotland. Edited by Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, and Joyce Miller (Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan)
Johnson, Marguerite (2009). Review of Witchcraft and belief in early modern Scotland. Edited by Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, and Joyce Miller (Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan). The European Legacy, 14 (6), 743-744.
2009
Book Chapter
A Reading of Sappho poem 58, fragment 31, and Mimnermus
Johnson, Marguerite (2009). A Reading of Sappho poem 58, fragment 31, and Mimnermus. The new Sappho on old age: textual and philosophical issues. (pp. 162-175) edited by Ellen Greene and Marilyn Skinner. Washington, DC, United States: Harvard University Press.
2009
Book Chapter
Apuleius
Johnson, Marguerite (2009). Apuleius. The Literary Encyclopedia. (pp. 1-1) London, United Kingdom: The Literary Dictionary Company.
2009
Book Chapter
Drawing down the goddess: The ancient {female} deities of modern paganism
Johnson, Marguerite (2009). Drawing down the goddess: The ancient {female} deities of modern paganism. Handbook of contemporary paganism. (pp. 311-334) edited by Murphy Pizza and James Lewis. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. doi: 10.1163/ej.9789004163737.i-650.91
2009
Journal Article
The witching hour: Sex magic in the 1950s Australia
Johnson, Marguerite (2009). The witching hour: Sex magic in the 1950s Australia. Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, 5, 234-287.
2008
Journal Article
"An Orchid in the Land of Technology": Narrative and Representation in Lars Van Trier's Medea
Joseph, Susan and Johnson, Marguerite (2008). "An Orchid in the Land of Technology": Narrative and Representation in Lars Van Trier's Medea. Arethusa, 41 (1), 113-132. doi: 10.1353/are.2008.0002
2007
Journal Article
Pan or the Devil? The polytheistic beliefs of Rosaleen Norton
Johnson, Marguerite (2007). Pan or the Devil? The polytheistic beliefs of Rosaleen Norton. Women - Church: an Australian journal of feminist studies in religion, 40, 141-144.
2006
Book Chapter
Lilith
Johnson, Marguerite (2006). Lilith. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft [4 Volumes] : The Western Tradition. (pp. 651-652) edited by Richard M. Golden. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
2006
Journal Article
Off with the pixies: The fey folk of the long poems and Catullan disclosure
Johnson, Marguerite (2006). Off with the pixies: The fey folk of the long poems and Catullan disclosure. Classics Ireland, 13, 23-58. doi: 10.2307/25528442
2006
Book Chapter
Hermeticism
Johnson, Marguerite (2006). Hermeticism. Encyclopedia of witchcraft [4 Volumes] : The Western Tradition. (pp. 488-490) edited by Richard M. Golden. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
2006
Edited Outputs
Antichthon: Special Issue: Catullus in Contemporary Perspective
Antichthon: Special Issue: Catullus in Contemporary Perspective. (2006). 40
2006
Book Chapter
Necromancy
Johnson, Marguerite (2006). Necromancy. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft [4 Volumes] : The Western Tradition. (pp. 808-809) edited by Richard M. Golden. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
2006
Book Chapter
Potions
Johnson, Marguerite (2006). Potions. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft [4 Volumes] : The Western Tradition. (pp. 925-926) edited by Richard M. Golden. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
Supervision
Availability
- Honorary Professor Marguerite Johnson is:
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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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