Durham is one of the world's leading centres for research in Classical Reception. Within the Department of Classics & Ancient History, scholars researching Classical Reception include Dr Caroline Barron, who researches the cultural significance of epigraphy from antiquity to the present day, with a particular interest in the Classical tradition and the history of collecting; Prof. Nora Goldschmidt, who works on the role played by ancient fragments in the discourses of modernism; Prof. Edith Hall, who is interested in how ancient literary evocations of the natural environment have been received in more recent media. Her most recent project, Aristotle Beyond the Academy is funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and asks how, where and why Aristotle has made cultural appearances in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales since the Restoration (1660); Prof. Jennifer Ingleheart is interested in modern responses to ancient sexuality (particularly what we would now call homosexuality), and in translation as a form of reception; Prof. Edmund Richardson, who works on spiritualism and the Classics.