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Emily Pillinger

@emilypillinger.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Classics and Liberal Arts at King's College London. Greco-Roman myth in music after WW2. Pro-books, bikes, and bodily autonomy. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 She / her.

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King's Classics @kingsclassics.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Celebrating our larger-than-life symbol of queer solidarity, @emilypillinger.bsky.social discusses the statue of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho.
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King's Classics @kingsclassics.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Can music make ancient worlds 'audible' even when it doesn't replicate ancient sounds? KCL's Dr Emily Pillinger and Dr Miranda Stanyon discuss the question in 'Towards a Theory of Amplification' - and the chapter is currently freely available to read!
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Towards a Theory of Amplification
Abstract. This chapter moves towards a theory of amplification, a multivalent term with an unruly range of applications and meanings. It maps amplification
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🚨WE'RE HIRING AGAIN – AGAIN!🚨 Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Lecturer in Music for Screen (Education) fixed-term, 18 months. We're looking for a creative practitioner/composer to teach composition for screen (e.g. film, TV, video game music, etc). my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
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King's Classics @kingsclassics.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We're excited that 'Music as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity' is now published! Co-edited by Dr Emily Pillinger it looks at music as a site of classical reception, from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 academic.oup.com/book/61669
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Music as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity
Abstract. Music as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception, from the early modern rise of opera to co
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I've supported @greenparty.org.uk locally for some time now, but the latest asylum 'reforms' from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social have tipped me over the edge on the national level. Thanks for having me, Green Party.
Screenshot of email welcoming author as a new member of the Green Party.
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Please consider signing this petition to make a proper public transport hub in Oxford. It would integrate train and bus services and free up Gloucester Green to make a new town square or even (shock!) a playground, as our fab Green councillors are suggesting. c.org/8kTGmrn7vJ
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17/10/2025
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🎉🎉 If you missed it, Dr Emily Pillinger's fascinating contribution to the 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception is now online, accessible to all. Go to the APGRD website or our YouTube channel to watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjzb...
Image of a laptop opened on top of a table, with a bookcase in the background. There is an open notebook on it, with a pen. On the laptop screen there is a video that says "Ecologies and Futures"
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
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King's Classics @kingsclassics.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
In the spotlight! Dr @emilypillinger.bsky.social dials women's voices up to the max in 'Penelope's Opera,' a project exploring contemporary music and classical myth. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/spotlig... #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky 🏺
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Penelope's Opera: amplifying the unheard voices of ancient Greek myth
In the latest Spotlight on Arts & Humanities, we look at the work of Dr Emily Pillinger, who works in the Department of Classics and in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities. She developed a…
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Mark Stay @markstay.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Me and countless other authors today…😂
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Oh yikes, good shout - I think I've been stressing about the problems with so many different sites that I've blanked that all out! But yes. Maybe even like Edith Hall, on a personal website? I dunno about the legalities...
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So frustrating! Pop it on academia.edu?
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
My 7-year-old (whose Dad is Greek) announced yesterday that there are 3 genders in the Greek language: male, female, and non-binary 🥹
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Oh no, I’m so sad to see this. I have never laughed so hard when reading a book as at the scene with the paternoster in ‘Changing Places’. It is perfection.
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Yeah, even the image accompanying this link is giving me the heebie jeebies…
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Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller) @armchairclassicist.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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sacooper.bsky.social @sacooper.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
A decision is needed Feb, yet tribunal isn’t until Dec 2025. This system is failing families. I’ve spoken to the BBC about SEND issues and would gladly give an interview if there’s a follow-up article. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #SEND #Tribunals" @richada.bsky.social
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'NHS nursery closure could mean I can't do my job'
NHS staff with young chidren are trying to save two hospital-affiliated nurseries in south London.
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sacooper.bsky.social @sacooper.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Powerful piece in The Guardian today exposing LAs wasting huge sums on losing SEND tribunals. We’ve just launched our own appeal against the LA for my son Ali, which they have no chance of winning—backed by multiple professionals. @richada.bsky.social
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'NHS nursery closure could mean I can't do my job'
NHS staff with young chidren are trying to save two hospital-affiliated nurseries in south London.
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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The Latin word of the year contest made it into the German news! (Or, at least, their social media offering)
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This is crummy treatment of students and teachers who have been working hard to pursue a subject that interests and excites them. I’m sorry the government feels that is something to discourage rather than reward. I hope there are ways to ameliorate the damage done today.
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Thank you so much! It sometimes feels like a lonely position to take, but I'm conscious that it is also one that is so much easier because I am in a secure job and have had wonderful travel opportunities in the past. It is time to let others have the long-distance adventures!
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
We're sleepwalking towards total climate collapse– it's why I'm petitioning the UK Govt to BAN fossil fuel advertising and sponsorships , following the lead of cities and countries around the world petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This is fantastic. I've sadly declined several conference invitations that involve flights the past couple of years, but had a blast speaking at more conferences by train across Europe. I am grateful for a sympathetic partner who has taken on longer periods of solo domestic labour to support this.
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
After the project's beginning at Oxford, #PenelopesWeb moved to @kingsartshums.bsky.social. Our first musical event coincided with the beautiful exhibition, 'Letters of Refuge', curated by my colleague James Corke-Webster, with the charity Art Refuge. www.penelopeswebtheopera.com/the-workshop...
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‘Making Music out of Myth’ and ‘Letters of Refuge’ — Penelope's Web - The Opera
In the spring of 2023 King’s College London saw the installation of a new exhibition in its public Arcade Space, in Bush House. The exhibition was called Letters of Refuge, and it was organised by Dr ...
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
In Reims for a conference on poetry and prophecy. It's all cathedrals and champagne - apparently even the trams' windshields are shaped to mimic the shape of champagne flutes!
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
There's no better way to measure how the patriarchy's doing than to count the number of women compared with men sitting in the first class carriages on #GWR (as you trudge toward the overflowing cattle class).
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
New ‘Odyssey’ Adaptation Criticized For Dropping Original’s Group Dance Scene Ending - The Onion theonion.com/new-odyssey-...
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New ‘Odyssey’ Adaptation Criticized For Dropping Original’s Group Dance Scene Ending
LOS ANGELES—Drawing widespread condemnation from classics scholars around the world, the new Odyssey adaptation The Return was criticized this week for dropping the original work’s group dance scene e...
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Delighted to share Britta's post in our staff and student blog, 'New Voices in Global Cultures'.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no
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Ida Östenberg @idaostenberg.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Loeb Actually.
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
LOL at the LCL
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The #PenelopesWeb project began with early support from Fiona Macintosh and Oxford's APGRD and TORCH, @apgrd.bsky.social and @torchoxford.bsky.social. They demonstrated how a workshop could help to draw out the ancient story through an operatic scene. www.penelopeswebtheopera.com/the-workshop...
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Sources of Inspiration — Penelope's Web - The Opera
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Yes! Charlotte Higgins has a lovely piece about re-reading Susan Cooper's 'The Dark is Rising' every Christmas, which was one of my absolute favourites too.
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This is lovely writing. Funnily enough, I met Alan Garner's daughter in a local bookshop just a couple of days ago! I was quite starstruck, and we had a great natter about the books we loved as children.
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
So here's one of the earliest pieces I wrote about it, explaining how the first aria was written, before we had even started to build our workshops around the opera. www.penelopeswebtheopera.com/the-workshop...
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‘Asphodel’ — Penelope's Web - The Opera
In the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, when training schemes in performing arts were grappling with a new world of illness and lockdown, the National Opera Studio commissioned the online composit...
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This diverse group of amateur, professional, and scholarly participants reflects the varied traditions of ancient and modern musicianship, and the symbiosis of music-making and myth-making in the ancient and modern worlds.
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Written and directed by Jeanne Pansard-Besson, and composed by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, the opera involves collaboration with professional and student musicians, school pupils, and an academic team of classicists, musicologists, and scholars of modern literature.
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Since I'm new to this lovely place, I've decided to share afresh posts that describe the creative #classics / #music research I've been working on recently: the opera project called 'Penelope's Web', based on Margaret Atwood's novella, 'The Penelopiad'.
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This is really encouraging. Our e-cargo bike, which we got through a cycle to work scheme, was transformational for our family. "The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars" — theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...
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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A 'New Voices in Global Cultures' blogpost by my wonderful colleague at King's, Dr Chris Holliday, who talks about how teaching on the MAGC intersects with the priorities driving his popular Fantasy/Animation podcast. @kingsartshums.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/academia-by-...
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Academia by ear: animating global cultures
Dr Christopher Holliday explores the correlation between the Global Cultures MA and his research into fantasy animation.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Oh hi there! We’ve landed here too. Bringing you updates from the people and places that make our home on Strand in London so special. Hands up - who else loves a fresh November morning?
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Glenn Moore @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Did…did a minotaur write this
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Emily Pillinger @emilypillinger.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I teach Latin literature and history, and I still think about Dress to Kill more often than the Roman Empire.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
NEED SOME GOOD NEWS? The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels. Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.
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