Erasure in Late Antiquity

Kay Boers is employed as Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval History at Utrecht University and is a board member of the Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies (UUCMS). His PhD thesis focused on the rhetoricity of citizens and citizenship in seventh-century Hispania. His current research focuses on the global seventh century and investigates the political and religious debates of this period from a comparative and transregional perspective with a heavy emphasis on the relation between (inter)text and community.

Becca Grose is a social and cultural historian of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, with a particular interest in how the materiality of written texts can tell us more about the relationships and societies of the people who wrote them. She has held posts at Royal Holloway and York, and is currently a visiting fellow in the ""Migration und Mobilität in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter"" research group at the Universität Tübingen.

Rebecca Usherwood is Assistant Professor in Late Antique and Early Byzantine Studies in the Classics department of Trinity College Dublin. Her research is concerned with emperors in the third and fourth centuries CE, particularly local understandings and reactions to imperial power as conceived and communicated centrally. Her first monograph, Political Memory and the Constantinian Dynasty: Fashioning Disgrace, was published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2022. She is also a series editor for Liverpool University Press' Women in Ancient Cultures series.

Guy Walker is a civil servant and independent researcher. He completed his PhD, funded by the Irish Research Council, at Trinity College Dublin in 2021. His thesis explores the influence of Neoplatonism on the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis; in particular, how philosophical schemas from Homeric literary criticism were retooled and 'remixed' in order to generate new meanings. His research interests include the intersection of philosophy and poetry, ancient literary criticism, and Late Antique Greek poetry.