Projects per year
Personal profile
Qualifications
BA(Hons), MA, PhD Bristol
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Biography
I joined the Department of Humanities at Roehampton in December 2017. Prior to this, I lectured in Roman history and Latin at the University of Queensland, Australia (2015-17) and the University of Manchester (2013-15). My research interests include the roles of Roman emperors in eighteenth and nineteenth-century texts, Roman religions, and imperial historiography. In particular, I have worked extensively on the Emperor Nero’s portrayal in Christian history as the Antichrist, and have published on portrayals of Roman emperors in the works and letters of Oscar Wilde. My first monograph The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm was published in spring 2020 with Cambridge University Press. In April 2021, I was elected to a position on the University Senate (2021-24). In June 2021, I became a member of the Council of the Roman Society, UK (2021-24).
I am also co-author of a series for the online media outlet The Conversation, entitled ‘Mythbusting Ancient Rome’, and have twice appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s national radio programme Conversations with Richard Fidler. I have twice contributed to BBC Radio programmes on ancient Roman topics: BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature: The Deluxe Edition, and BBC Radio 4's In Our Time: Nero. I have published articles in the Times Literary Supplement, the BBC History Magazine, the BBC World Histories Magazine, and History Today. I also regularly contribute to podcasts and video documentaries for History Extra and History Hit TV.
Research projects
I am currently the Co-I (PIs Dr Marta Garcia-Morcillo [Roehampton] and Prof. Filippo Carla-Uhink [Potsdam]) on the joint AHRC-DFG funded project '“Twisted Transfers”: Discursive Constructions of Corruption in Ancient Greece and Rome' (2020-2023) . The project explores notions of corruption in discourse in Graeco-Roman Antiquity that move beyond the definition of corruption in law in order to investigate their interaction with specific cultural, political and economic contexts. By concentrating on the law courts of classical Athens to the ethics of Byzantine diplomacy, the project will identify the influence on the formation of later discourses in Western societies today.
Teaching
2021/22
Democracies and Dictatorships: Ancient and Modern
Rome: Epic and Empire
Historiography: In the Footsteps of Herodotus
Nero: The Emperor and his Legacy
MRes: Researching Antiquity
Network
Projects
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TwiTra: Twisted Transfers. Discursive Constructions of Corruption in Ancient Greece and Rome
Garcia Morcillo, M., Malik, S., Gershon, Y. & Rosillo-Lopez, C.
1/02/20 → 31/05/23
Project: Research
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An Emperor's War on Greece: Cassius Dio’s Nero
Malik, S., 12 Aug 2021, Emperors and Political Culture in Cassius Dio’s Roman History. Cambridge University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Republican Romans: Unlikely Decadent Prototypes
Malik, S., 2021, The Oxford Handbook of Decadence. Desmarais, J. & Weir, D. (eds.). Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm
Malik, S., 16 Apr 2020, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 246 p. (Classics After Antiquity)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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CVCVTA AB RATIONIBVS NERONIS AVGVSTI: A JOKE AT NERO'S EXPENSE?
Malik, S., 1 Dec 2019, In: Classical Quarterly. 69, 2, p. 783-792Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Decadence and Roman Historiography
Malik, S., Aug 2019, Decadence and Literature. Desmarais, J. & Weir, D. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 30-46 (Cambridge Critical Concepts).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Open AccessFile497 Downloads (Pure)
Activities
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British Museum Workshop: Nero
Shushma Malik (Speaker)
30 Sep 2021Activity: Talk or presentation for an academic audience › Invited talk for an academic audience
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Times Literary Supplement: Finding Nero: The Many Narratives of an Infamous Emperor
Shushma Malik (Reviewer)
25 Jun 2021Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Media Article or Participation
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BBC History Magazine: Marcus Aurelius, Rome's Reluctant Killer
Shushma Malik (Contributor)
Jun 2021Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Media Article or Participation
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History Hit Live with Dan Snow: Nero
Shushma Malik (Interviewee)
Oct 2020Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Media Article or Participation
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BBC Radio 4 In Our Time: Nero
Shushma Malik (Interviewee)
Apr 2019Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Media Article or Participation
Press / Media
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History Extra Podcasts. Corruption in the Ancient World
Marta Garcia Morcillo, Shushma Malik & Yehudah Gershon
11/04/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media