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Helen Morales is a classicist and cultural critic with a wide range of in the ancient world. These include the ancient novel, mythology, literary criticism, art and text, sexual ethics, diversity, and pilgrimage. These interests are always connected to major contemporary concerns – leadership, class, race, feminism, aesthetics, law – a better understanding of which, in her view, comes through appreciating their investment in Classics. Helen received her PhD from the University of Cambridge and previously taught at the University of Reading, Arizona State University, and the University of Cambridge (2001-8), where she was also a Fellow of Newnham College. In 1998-9 she was a Fellow at the Centre for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC. She has done consultancy work for the Royal National Theatre, reviews books for a wide range of journals including the Times Literary Supplement, and has appeared on several BBC radio programs. She gave the 2011 Gail A. Burnett Lecture at San Diego State University, and gave a couple of public lectures at the Getty Villa in Spring 2012 on their new Aphrodite exhibition. In 2012 she was appointed to the Argyropoulos Chair of Hellenic Studies.