People > Steering Committee > Valerie Hope
Valerie Hope is senior lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University with research interests focused on Roman funerals, funerary commemoration and mourning rituals. She has written extensively on: Roman funerary monuments, including those of gladiators and military personnel, the uses and abuses of the corpse, mourning mementos, consolation strategies and the senses in mourning performance.
Valerie's publications include: Roman Death: The dying and the dead in Ancient Rome (Bloomsbury 2009); Memory and Mourning: Studies on Roman Death (Oxbow 2011: co-edited with Janet Huskinson) and War as Spectacle. Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict (Bloomsbury 2015; co-edited with Anastasia Bakogianni). She is currently working on a book centred on the behaviour of, and expectations associated with, Roman mourners.
