{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-people-js","path":"/people/anne-sheppard/","result":{"pageContext":{"id":"23d38d79-013f-5957-8beb-e6d96ee644f2","title":"Professor Anne Sheppard","slug":"anne-sheppard","content":"\n<p>My research interests centre round the interaction between philosophy and literature. After studying ‘Greats’, i.e. Classics and Philosophy, at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, I did an Oxford DPhil on the literary theory of the Neoplatonist philosopher, Proclus.&nbsp; This led me to work on other aspects of Neoplatonism and in particular to an interest in Neoplatonic psychology and philosophy of mind. I have published on both ancient and modern aesthetics, as well as on Neoplatonism. My book, <em>The Poetics of Phantasia:&nbsp; Imagination in Ancient Aesthetics,</em> dealing with the ancient concept of imagination in relation to literature and art, appeared in March 2014. I am now engaged on a new research project, on views of drama in post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy, and am also preparing a translation, commentary and introduction to Plotinus, <em>Ennead </em>1.8 for Parmenides Press. I taught Philosophy at Oxford, then Classics at the University of Durham and Philosophy at the Open University before coming to Royal Holloway in 1989. I retired from my full-time post at Royal Holloway in 2017 and am now Professor Emerita of Ancient Philosophy.&nbsp;</p>\n","acf":{"custom_title":"","custom_description":"","email":"A.Sheppard@rhul.ac.uk","institutional_affiliation":"Department of Classics - Royal Holloway University of London","mentor":"","position":"","enable_standalone_page":false,"internal_nav":null,"_thumbnail_id":{"localFile":{"id":"fedb094a-5607-5237-81e1-3842c7417d14","childImageSharp":{"fixed":{"aspectRatio":0.9615384615384616,"srcWebp":"/static/723734e4daccb56c7379ef21df29c24e/403a4/Anne_Sheppard_photo.webp","src":"/static/723734e4daccb56c7379ef21df29c24e/9dc27/Anne_Sheppard_photo.jpg"}}},"media_details":{"height":2160,"width":2076}}}}},"staticQueryHashes":["2168275663","2353704214","3560506770","3560506770","4076300155","63159454"]}