Staff Profiles

Introduction

BA Classics (Durham), MA Classics (Durham), PhD Classics (Cambridge)

My research centres on two main areas: Roman literature, culture and memory studies and digital humanities (especially games) with a particular focus on how audiences conceptualize the past. My first book was on the characterisation of Hannibal in Silius Italicus' epic, Punica (as well as in historiography, Liverpool, 2014) and I am now working on the relationship between the emperor Domitian and the representation of myth and the gods in Flavian literature and material culture. I co-run the Flavian Literature and Culture Network in collaboration with the Emma Buckley (St Andrews) and Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois). I also work on digital games for the heritage sector. I was the PI for an ACE-funded project in collaboration with the Roman site of Vindolanda and the Game Lab, Newcastle University, designing a mystery game ('The Missing Dead') for Key Stage 2 students, set on the site and playable on smart phones and tablets, that uses hand-drawn 2D animation (https://www.vindolanda.com/the-missing-dead-app; available on IOS and Android). Additionally, in collaboration with the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities and Entertainment Games Ltd. I have recently designed an educational game based on the assassination of Domitian (available on Android and IOS; https://www.rmo.nl/uw-bezoek/activiteiten/domitianus-game/). Most recently I have worked with the Vindolanda Trust and Creative Assembly (makers of the Total War video game series) to produce the web-based game and online exhibition 'Vindolanda Adventure' (https://www.vindolanda.com/vindolanda-adventure). I was also the co-curator for an exhibition on the Emperor Domitian ('God on Earth: Emperor Domitian') in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, December 2021 - May 2022, and in Rome, Capitoline Museums, July 2022 - January 2023 (https://www.rmo.nl/en/exhibitions/temporary-exhibitions/emperor-domitian/).

Academic Career

2020 -    Senior Lecturer in Classics, Newcastle University 

2016-20   Lecturer in Classics, University of Newcastle (UK)

2012-16     Assistant Professor for Classics, Radboud University, Nijmegen (Netherlands)

2011-12    Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Manchester (UK)

2010-11    Supervisor of Studies, Classics, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (UK) 

Areas of Research:

Flavian Literature and culture

Latin imperial literature

Roman History

Memory studies

Digital Humanities, especially video games

• Article

  • Stocks C. Dying in Purple: Life, Death, and Tyrian Dye in the Aeneid. Proceedings of the Virgil Society 2015, 28, 173-196.

• Authored Book

  • Stocks C. The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus' Punica. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014.

• Book Chapters

  • Stocks C, Raimondi Cominesi A. Living like the Emperor: a Portrayal of Domitian in his villas and on the Palatine. In: Stocks, C; Raimondi Cominesi, A; de Haan, N; Moormann, E, ed. God on Earth: Emperor Domitian. Sidestone, 2021, pp.105-110.
  • Stocks C, Moormann E. Identifying Demigods: Augustus, Domitian, and Hercules. In: Marks, R; Mogetta, M, ed. Domitian's Rome and the Augustan Legacy. University of Michigan Press, 2021, pp.79-101.
  • Stocks C. Simply the best? Epic aristeiai. In: Reitz, C; Finkmann, S, ed. Structures of Epic Poetry. de Gruyter, 2019, pp.3-39.
  • Stocks C. ‘Stories from the Frontier: Bridging Past and Present at Hadrian’s Wall’. In: Dinter, M; Reitz, B, ed. Intermediality and Roman Literature. de Gruyter, 2019, pp.139-60.
  • Stocks C. Monsters in the Night: Horace, Prodigia, and the Parallel Worlds of Epode 16 and Odes 4.4. In: Bather P; Stocks C, ed. Horace’s Epodes: Context, Intertexts, and Reception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp.153-174.
  • Stocks C. Daddy's Little Girl? The Father/Daughter Bond in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica and Flavian Rome. In: Manioti N, ed. Family in Flavian Epic. Leiden: Brill, 2016, pp.41-60.

• Edited Books

  • Stocks C, Raimondi Cominesi A, de Haan N, Moormann E, ed. God on Earth: Emperor Domitian. Sidestone Press, 2021.
  • Stocks C, Buckley E, Augoustakis A, ed. Undamning Domitian? Reassessing the last Flavian princeps. Champaign, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
  • Augoustakis A, Buckley E, Stocks C, ed. Fides in Flavian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.
  • Bather P, Stocks C, ed. Horace’s Epodes: Context, Intertexts, and Reception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.