Albert takes up this Research Fellowship having completed his undergraduate degree at Oxford and his postgraduate degrees at Cambridge. His PhD was awarded Cambridge's 2023 Hare Prize.

Specialisms

Key interests: art and text; ecphrasis (the description of an artwork); the historiography of ancient art; philosophical theories of sense-perception, imagination, and representation; Greek mythology in Roman culture; animals in ancient art and thought; Greek literature of the Roman empire.

Selected Publications

'Octopodal Pictoriality: The Self-Reflexivity of the Octopus in Graeco-Roman Art'. Art History. Forthcoming.

‘Philostratus Visualises the Philosophical: Imagines 2.23, Hercules furens and the Cataleptic Impression’. American Journal of Philology 142(1): 137-175. 2021.