Alison Ruth Sharrock
Alison Ruth Sharrock (born 4 January 1963) is an English Classics scholar. She has been Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester since August 2000. In 2009, she gave the Stanford Memorial Lectures. Together with David Konstan of Brown University, she edits the series Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory published by Oxford University Press. Career Alison Sharrock graduated in 1984 from the University of Liverpool with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. She received her doctorate (PhD) from the University of Cambridge in 1988. She worked at Keele University from 1989 to 2000. During her current post as Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester, she was Head of the Division of Archaeology, Religions and Theology, Classics and Ancient History (ARC), and then Head of the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archeology and Egyptology (CAHAE) in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. She specialises in Latin literature, particularly in feminist readings of comedy, elegy and epic. She also develops online support materials for teachers and learners of the Latin language. Selected publications Books as single author Reading Roman Comedy: Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence (The Stanford Memorial Lectures, 2009); Fifty Key Classical