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Dr Anactoria Clarke

Associate Director Student Support And Staff Tutor English Literature And Senior Lecturer

English & Creative Writing

anactoria.clarke@open.ac.uk

Biography

I have PhDs in English Literature (Male doubling in late 19th century gothic) and Classics (Cheiron the centaur in ancient sources and Anglophone reception from 1840s onwards), and MAs in Egyptology and Creative Writing.

Current research interests include mythologies of different countries and their retellings, and classics in dark academia

Publications

Book Chapter

‘Part-time mature students and (the unexpected benefits of?) access to the arts’. (2022)

Digital Artefact

Artemidorus (2017)

Journal Article

[Book Review] Song of the Huntress (L.) Holland (2025)

[Book Review] What to Expect When You’re Dead. An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife(R.) Garland Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025. (2025)

Supporting students effectively in an online teaching environment at the beginning of their student journey (2024)

Manti kakon: The Uncanny Prophecies of Calchas in the Iliad and Beyond (2021)

Widening HE participation in the arts: Impacts of an access module on learner preparedness (2021)

Are We Living in LA (P)LA Land? Reporting on the Practice of 30 STEM Tutors in Their Use of a Learning Analytics Implementation at The Open University (2021)

‘Time and tide for no man wait’: Chiron’s qualities complicated in John Updike’s The Centaur’ (2020)

How do tutors use data to support their students? (2019)

How does a STEM Access module prepare adult learners to succeed in undergraduate science? (2019)

Chinese whispers? Investigating the consistency of the language of assessment between a distance education institution, its tutors and students (2018)

Other

[Book Review] ‘Review of Hammond’s ‘Artemidorus: The Interpretation of Dreams’ and Thonemann’s ‘An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus’ The Interpretation of Dreams’ (2020)

The Jewel of Seven Stars - Bram Stoker (2019)

Presentation / Conference

Improving gender balance through a Combined STEM degree (2022)