Richard Hawley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a member of the Hellenic Institute. Specialising in gender, identity, and rhetoric in Greco-Roman culture, he has published widely and teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research explores gender construction, ancient (auto)biography, and epideictic rhetoric in authors like Plutarch, Lucian, and Dio Chrysostom. He is currently completing a monograph on gender in ancient sources and a commentary on Plutarch’s Banquet of the Seven Sages. Hawley also supervises research on the reception of the classical world in popular culture and education.