Introduction

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

My primary research interest is Latin epic, especially Flavian epic. My first book was on the characterisation of Hannibal in Silius Italicus' epic, Punica (Liverpool, 2014) and I am now working on the relationship between the emperor Domitian and the divine in Flavian poetry 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 am 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 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/). I am 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, Trajan's Markets, June 2022 - January 2023 (https://www.rmo.nl/en/exhibitions/temporary-exhibitions/emperor-domitian/).

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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

Memory studies

Digital Humanities, especially video games

• Stocks C, Raimondi Cominesi A, de Haan N, Moormann E, ed. God on Earth: Emperor Domitian. Sidestone Press, 2021.
• 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, 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. ‘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.
• Augoustakis A, Buckley E, Stocks C, ed. Fides in Flavian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.
• 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, Buckley E, Augoustakis A, ed. Undamning Domitian? Reassessing the last Flavian princeps. Champaign, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
• 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.
• Bather P, Stocks C, ed. Horace’s Epodes: Context, Intertexts, and Reception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• 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. Dying in Purple: Life, Death, and Tyrian Dye in the Aeneid. Proceedings of the Virgil Society 2015, 28, 173-196.
• Stocks C. The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus' Punica. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014.