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Paula James married and started a family at 19, delaying her degree and PhD until her late twenties. Her academic fortunes rose on joining The Open University Classical Studies Department in 1993 when she was 43.

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Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditionsCreative Commons Image Loren Javier under CC-BY-ND licence

By Dr Paula James (The Open University)

11 May 2011

She might have been a modern California girl, but Buffy's relationships with creatures of the dark is a tale as old as Slayers themselves...  Read more : Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions

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Seize the day and savour it: Horace's carpe diemUsed with permission

By Dr Paula James (The Open University)

16 January 2008

Paula James explores the layers of meaning in Horace's tales of two mice.  Read more : Seize the day and savour it: Horace's carpe diem

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James, Paula (2011). Ovid's Myth of Pygmalion on Screen: In Pursuit of the Perfect Woman. Continuum Studies in Classical Reception. London: Continuum.

James, P. (2010). How classical is Ariadne's parrot? Southall's painting and its literary registers. Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature, 39(1), pp. 53–72.

James, Paula (2009). Crossing classical thresholds: Gods, monsters and Hell dimensions in the Whedon universe. In: Lowe, Dunstan and Shahabudin, Kim eds. Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 237–260.

James, Paula (2009). Paideia at Play: Learning and Wit in Apuleius- Reviewed by Paula James. Ancient Narrative, 8, pp. 167–179.

James, Paula (2007). R.May. Apuleius and drama: The Ass on stage. Ancient Narrative, 6

Courtney, Julia and James, Paula eds. (2006). The Role of the Parrot in Selected Texts from Ovid to Jean Rhys: Telling a Story from an Alternative Viewpoint. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press.

James, Paula and O'Brien, Maeve (2006). To baldly go: a last look at Lucius and his counter-humiliation strategies. In: Keulen, W.H.; Nauta, R.R. and Panayotakis, S. eds. Lectiones Scrupulosae: Essays on the Text and Interpretation of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses in Honour of Maaike Zimmerman. Ancient Narrative Series, Ancient Narrative (Supplementum 6). Groningen, Netherlands: Barkhuis Publishing, pp. 234–251.

James, Paula (2006). Ritualistic behaviour in THE WICKER MAN: a classical and carnivalesque perspective on the 'true nature of sacrifice'. In: Franks, Benjamin; Harper, Stephen; Murray, Jonathan and Stevenson, Lesley eds. The Quest for the Wicker Man: history, folklore and Pagan perspectives. Edinburgh: Luath Press, pp. 44–55.

James, Paula (2005). Real and metaphorical mimicking birds in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius. In: Harrison, Stephen; Paschalis, Michael and Frangoulidis, Stavros eds. Metaphor in the Ancient Novel. Ancient narrative (Suppementum 4). Netherlands: Barkhuis Publishing, pp. 210–224.

Feldherr, Andrew and James, Paula (2004). Making the most of Marsyas. Arethusa, 37(1), pp. 75–104.

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Paula James married and started a family at 19, delaying her degree and PhD until her late twenties. Her academic fortunes rose on joining The Open University Classical Studies Department in 1993 when she was 43. As well as contributing to interdisciplinary studies in the Arts Faculty, she has taught, researched and published primarily on Apuleius and Ovid; more recently she has pursued mythical motifs and their metamorphosis in popular culture, writing on Pygmalion's ivory maiden at the movies and television (her latest interest being in the robot April in Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Last year she co-edited, with Dr Julia Courtney, and contributed to a book of essays on the role of the parrot in literature from Ovid and Statius to Jean Rhys.

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