University of Manchester
What was the name of the employer P. E. Easterling work for from 1957 to 1958?
P . E . Easterling Patricia Elizabeth Easterling , FBA ( née Fairfax ; born 11 March 1934 ) is an English classical scholar , recognised as a particular expert on the work of Sophocles . She was Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge from 1994 to 2001 . She was the 36th person and the first — and , so far , only — woman to hold the post . Life and career . Born in Blackburn , Easterling attended Witton Park High School ( originally called Blackburn High School for Girls ) before graduating with first class honours and distinction in Classics at Newnham College , Cambridge in 1955 . After an initial spell lecturing at the University of Manchester ( 1957–58 ) , Easterling taught within the Cambridge Classics Faculty as a Fellow of Newnham College until 1987 when she took up the position of Professor of Greek at University College London . In 1987 , she also became an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College . She gave the inaugural Housman Lecture at University College London on 14 June 2005 . Easterling was the first woman to chair the Council of University Classical Departments . In 1994 , she returned to Cambridge and Newnham as the 36th Regius Professor of Greek , the first ( and so far only ) woman to hold that post since its endowment by Henry VIII . In 1998 , Easterling was elected a Fellow of the British Academy , and in 2013 was made associé étranger de lAcadémie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres at the Institut de France , and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . She was the first Chair of the Management Committee of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon Project , and is a patron of the charity Classics for All . On 22 January 2000 , Easterling received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University , Sweden . She has also been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Athens , Bristol ( 1999 ) , Royal Holloway ( University of London ) and Ioannina , and has been an Honorary Fellow of University College London since 1997 . Academic interests . Easterling works mainly on Greek literature , particularly tragedy ; she also studies the survival and reception of ancient drama . Easterling has been a General Editor of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series since its foundation over thirty years ago , and has published an edition within this series of Sophocles’ Trachiniae ( 1982 ) . Publications . Books - Sophocles : Trachiniae , edited , Cambridge , 1982 - Greek Religion and Society , edited with J V Muir , 1984 - The Cambridge History of Classical Literature , General editor with E J Kenney - The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy , Editor , 1997 - Greek Scripts : An Illustrated Introduction , edited with Carol Handley ( Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies , 2001 ) - Greek and Roman Actors : Aspects of an Ancient Profession , edited with Edith Hall , 2002 - Sophocles : Electra and Other Plays ( Penguin , 2008 ) Articles - Constructing the Heroic in Christopher Pelling , Greek Tragedy and the Historian , Oxford , 1997 : 21-37 - The Infanticide in Euripides Medea , Yale Classical Studies 25 ( 1977 ) : 177-191 - From Repertoire to Canon . in Easterling , P . E . ( ed. ) Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy , 1997 , pp . 211-227 . - Narrative on the Greek Tragic Stage . Defining Greek Narrative , 2014 , pp . 226-240 . External links . - Cambridge University database - Profile of P E Easterling - Picture of P . E . Easterling - Homer , Tragedy and Beyond : Essays in honour of P . E . Easterling , New Hellenic Society 1991 - Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition : Essays in honour of P . E . Easterling on her 75th birthday . Cambridge University Press 2009 - British Academy fellowship entry