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The Reverend Dr Teresa Morgan is an English academic and cleric, best known as the author of Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds.
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- Xulon Press book Midlife Crisis The Storm Before the Calm Based on a True Story Teresa Morgan
- Early life and education
- Academic career
- Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
- Ordained ministry
- Selected works
- References
Early life and education
Morgan attended Oxford High School (where she is now a governor) before studying the viola at the Hochschule für Musik, Cologne. As an undergraduate, she studied at Clare College, Cambridge and was a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music. She was a Research Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and Newnham College, Cambridge, Fellow and Tutor of University College, Oxford, and has been a Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College since 2000. She holds a master's degree (M.A.) and doctorate (Ph.D.) from Cambridge, Dip. R.A.M., L.R.A.M., and a master's degree (M.A.) from Oxford.
Academic career
Her research interests lie in the study of popular ethics in antiquity and contemporary historiography. Her work covers aspects of the relationship between literature and society in antiquity, cultural and intellectual history and early Christian history. In April 2013, she presented an edition of the Radio Four programme called "Something Understood" on the subject of humility.
Morgan is Nancy Bissell Turpin Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Oriel College, Oxford, where she is also Senior Dean. She also holds the posts of Lecturer in Ancient History at Jesus College, Oxford and Lecturer in Ancient History, Faculty of Classics, Oxford University.
Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
Her most cited book, Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds, is about Hellenistic and Roman education and re-interprets the function of literature, grammar and rhetoric in education, as well as looking at Hellenistic and Roman theories of cognitive development.
Morgan's Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds is on the reading lists for some of the modules and courses of university level education in England and the United States.
Ordained ministry
From 2000 to 2002, Morgan trained for Holy Orders on the St Albans and Oxford Ministry Course. She was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2002 and as a priest in 2003. Since 2002, she has been a non-stipendiary minister of the Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Littlemore in the Diocese of Oxford.