Gloyn completed her BA and MPhil at Newnham CollegeCambridge, and received a PhD from Rutgers (the State University of New Jersey) in 2011.[2]
Between 2011 and 2013, she was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham, before moving to Royal Holloway.[1][2] Prior to her current appointment as Reader in Latin Languages and Literature in 2020, Gloyn acted as a Lecturer (2013–2018) and a Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway.[3]
Gloyn is also a founding member of the Women's Classical Committee (UK) and served as Administrator from 2015 to 2022;[4] and an Editorial Consultant for the online Companion to The Worlds of Roman Women.[2] She was a trustee of the Classical Association from 2017 to 2022.[5]
According to Gloyn, her research interests are "pretty broad".[2] She has published widely on topics including Seneca the Younger, classical reception, the history of Classics, and issues of social and familial history within Latin literature more broadly.[1][2][6]
She is the author of two books:
(2019) Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture, London: Bloomsbury Academic.[7][8][9]
(2017) The Ethics of the Family in Seneca, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[10][11][12][13]
Her other recent publications include:
(2019) "We Are What We Keep: The 'Family Archive', Identity and Public/Private Heritage", with Anna Woodham, Laura King, Vicky Crewe and Fiona Blair. Heritage & Society.[14]
(2018) "The Ties That Bind: Materiality, Identity and the Life Course in the 'Things' Families Keep", with Anna Woodham, Laura King and Vicky Crewe. Journal of Family History 43.2: 157–176.[15]
(2016) "This Is Not A Chapter About Jane Harrison: Classicists at Newnham College, 1882–1922". In Women Classical Scholars. Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly, eds. E. Hall and R. Wyles. Oxford University Press: 153–175.[16]
(2014) "Show Me The Way To Go Home: A Reconsideration of Seneca's De Consolatione ad Polybium".The American Journal of Philology135.3: 451-480.[17]
(2013) "Reading Rape in Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Test-Case Lesson". Classical World 106.4: 676–681.[18]
Alongside her academic research, Gloyn also writes and publishes in non-traditional formats, including her personal blog entitled 'Classically Inclined'.[19] Publications of this kind include:
(2019) 'Invisible barriers keep many academics from the media', WonkHE.[20]
(2016) 'Seneca's Guide To Relaxing.' Iris Online.[21]
(2018) Interviewed about Stoicism for episode 2 of BBC 4's Hacking Happiness ('Self-Harm Nation').[26]
(2017) 'Talking head' for five episodes of Myths and Monsters, a television series for 3DD Productions; released on Netflix UK/US/Canada on 23 December 2017.[27]
(2016) Interviewed for article in the Independent, 'Why do bridesmaids all dress the same?', on Roman marriage traditions.[28]
Gloyn has also spoken at several public events, including:
(2018) "Lessons in Stoic Leadership from Seneca", Stoicon 2018, London.[29]
(2018) "Do Fictional Monsters Reflect Our Reality?", The Royal Institution, London.[30]
