Charlotte Spence is currently a lecturer in Ancient History at St Hilda’s College at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD at the University of Exeter, which examined the conceptions of the dead and the gods in ancient curse tablets. Before that, Charlotte studied Ancient History at the University of Birmingham.

Charlotte’s teaching interests reflect the chronological breadth of her research; she teaches topics from Archaic Greek History through to the reign of Emperor Hadrian. She is a social and cultural historian and is particularly interested in weaving material culture into her teaching.

Charlotte’s primary research continues to be on ancient curse inscriptions. She has published on the development of Roman curses, the continuity or, lack of, in Carthaginian cursing practice, and ancient Greek personal religion and curse tablets. She has forthcoming publications on cursing and being cursed in Late Antique Egypt, and is co-editor of the volumes ‘Marginality and ‘Marginalised’ Groups in the Ancient World: A Material Approach’  and ‘The Christian and the Supernatural in Late Antiquity’.

She is currently working on her next monograph, which focuses on the use of Jewish and Christian powers in curse tablets in Late Antiquity. She is also co-editor of the Lived Realities in Ancient History series at Trivent Publishing.