Michael Squire joined the Department of Classics at King's College London in 2011. He is Research Lead in the Department of Classics.
Michael's first degree was in Classics at Cambridge (Trinity College), where he also received his MPhil in Classical Archaeology. After a year studying comparative literature as Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard, he returned to Cambridge to write a doctoral thesis on 'Visual and verbal interactions in Graeco-Roman antiquity'. From 2006 to 2011 he was Junior Research Fellow at Christ's College in Cambridge, and Alexander von Humboldt-Stipendiat at the archaeological institutes of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Since 2011 he has held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Internationales Kolleg Morphomata (Universität zu Köln), the Department of Classics at Stanford University and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte; he was also awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2013.
Research interests cover a broad range of topics in the field of Greek and Roman art, archaeology and literature, as well as in art history and aesthetics more broadly. A particular specialism is the interplay between classical visual and literary cultures – including ancient ecphrasis, narratology and visual engagements with literary and mythical subjects. He edits book-series on 'Greek Culture in the Roman World' (Cambridge University Press) and 'Image, Text and Culture in Classical Antiquity' (Routledge), and has sat on various journal editorial boards (including that of 'Art History' since 2013). He leads a project on 'Modern Classicisms' (www.modernclassicisms.com) and in 2018 curated an exhibition on 'The Classical Now' across two venues in London (Bush House and Somerset House East Wing).
