Eleni Alexandra Giamarellou Bourmpouli

Eleni Giamarellou Bourmpouli is a current PhD candidate in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews, supervised by Dr Emma Buckley, Dr Jon Hesk, and Dr Ralph Anderson. She is the recipient of a Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities. The provisional title of her project is 'Divine Outcasts: The Furies' Lived Experience in Rituals and Emotions'. The project focuses on reading the Furies in the light of theories of ritual and emotion to approach them as beings that exist within broader divine and mortal society. 

Eleni holds a BA in English from the University of York and completed an MPhil in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews, supervised by Dr Emma Buckley and Dr Ralph Anderson. Her MPhil thesis, titled 'Steps to Acquiring Godhood: Ritual and Divinity in Seneca's Medea' was examined by Dr Henry Stead (St Andrews) and Dr Mairéad McAuley (UCL).

Her research interests lie in ancient Greek and Roman mythology and religion, with a particular focus on the ontology, activity, and experience of divinity.