Edward A. S. Ross- Doctor of Philosophy
- Teaching Fellow at University of Reading
Edward A. S. Ross
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Teaching Fellow at University of Reading
Co-Investigator for "iGAIAS: Investigating Gen AI in Ancient World Studies" at the University of Reading
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Introduction
I recently completed my PhD in Classical Studies at the University of Reading. My doctoral research explored the daily religious life of people in Hellenistic Central Asia and how they would have co-existed in multi-religious spaces.
My broader research interests include ancient religious diversity, the movement of Buddhism into the Hellenistic and Roman East, religious self-sacrifice, uses of AI in ancient language pedagogy, and Buddhism in North America.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
September 2023 - August 2024
Position
- Research Officer
Description
- Projects: "ChatGPT: A Conversational Language Study Tool" (March 2023 - present) and "Gerard Butler with a Spear: Locating Modern Stereotypes for the Classical World in Generative Image AI" (January 2024 - present) - Co-Investigator: Jackie Baines - Research Assistants: Shona Carter-Griffiths, Hannah Gage, Jacinta Hunter, Fleur McRitchie Pratt, Nisha Patel
September 2020 - August 2023
Position
- Associate Lecturer
Description
- Modules Taught: - CL1G1: "Ancient Greek Language 1" (January 2021 - August 2022) - CL1GH: "Greek History: war, society, and change in the Archaic Age" (September 2020 - August 2022) - CL1L1: "Latin Language 1" (January 2023 - August 2023) - CL2CGH: "Greek History: Persian Wars to Alexander" (September 2021 - August 2022) - CLMOP2: "MA Special Option 2 – Ancient Afghanistan" (January 2022 - August 2022)
Education
January 2020 - June 2024
September 2017 - December 2018
September 2013 - June 2017
Publications
Publications (17)
This comparative dataset was collected during the data-gathering portion of the "ChatGPT: A Conversational Language Study Tool" project over the 2023-2024 academic year. These survey forms were completed by students in ancient language classes in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading. This project has been reviewed by the Universi...
This survey was the second part of the data-gathering portion of the "ChatGPT: A Conversational Language Study Tool" project. These survey forms were completed by students in ancient language classes in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading. The results of this survey will be compared to an initial set of surveys taken in Autumn 2...
Over 2023, many universities and policy organisations in the higher education (HE) sector are working to create guiding principles and guidelines for the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in HE Teaching and Learning (T&L). Despite these guidelines, students remain unsure if and how they should use AI. This article discusses the AI info...
This document is a short introductory guide to the digital tools available for supporting the study of Ancient Greek and Latin. The first part of this guide is a list of our preferred digital tools for supporting Ancient Greek and Latin learning. This list is not exhaustive, but it does include a variety of generative AI tools and their ideal uses...
Encyclopedia entry published in the Database of Religious History (University of British Columbia) discussing International Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji, a Rinzai Zen Buddhist Monastery in the Catskill Mountains, New York, USA.
This survey was the first part of the data-gathering portion of the "ChatGPT: A Conversational Language Study Tool" project. These survey forms were completed by students in ancient language classes in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading. The results of this survey will be compared to a second set of surveys taken in Spring 2024...
This survey was a pilot study to gather opinions about AI from teaching staff in the Classics Department at the University of Reading. The results of this survey were used to develop the department's AI policy and citation guide for the 2023 Autumn Term.
This project, "ChatGPT: A Conversational Language Study Tool", has been reviewed by the Univer...
These surveys were collected during general AI ethics tutorials with students in the Classics and Modern Languages Departments at the University of Reading over the 2023 Autumn Term. The results of these surveys was used to support findings related to the effects of AI education on student opinion and usage of generative AI tools.
This project, "C...
In November 2022, ChatGPT 3.5 was released on a public research preview, gaining notoriety for its ability to pull from a vast body of information to create coherent and digestible bodies of text that accurately respond to queries (OpenAI, 2022). It is able to recognise the grammar and vocabulary of ancient languages, translate passages, and compos...
Encyclopedia entry published in the Database of Religious History (University of British Columbia) discussing Shi HuiJiao's Biographies of Eminent Monks from the Liang Dynasty (502-557 CE).
This book is a compilation of the lives of over 500 Buddhist figures from 67 CE to 519 CE. This 14-chapter volume became the widely accepted basis for Chinese Buddhist, historical biography literature from the 6th century onwards. Extending from China’s first interactions with Buddhism to the Liang Dynasty, the text of the Biographies of Eminent Mo...
As more archaeological evidence is published from Central Asia, the daily life of its people becomes clearer. Recent material from the Hellenistic temple complex in Ai Khanoum (Martinez-Sève, 2021) suggests that at least three different groups of cult activity occurred simultaneously in the temple site during the Greco-Bactrian period (c. 256-100 B...
The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures are a prime example of the use of calligraphy as a teaching tool in Zen Buddhist practice. Each school of Zen Buddhism interprets their depiction of practice differently. Within their practices, certain schools of Zen Buddhism maintain a tradition of chanting the direct transmission of the dharma from the historical Budd...
The tradition of epic poetry is deeply tied to that of oral transmission. The works of Homer, for instance, were not fully recorded until approximately two hundred years after their creation. With no complete textual versions widely available, it was necessary for these works to be disseminated verbally. Rhapsodes would perform epic poems for crowd...
Prior to the Tokugawa period, Buddhism was an elitist religion in Japan. It was practiced by government officials and was part of the state cult. After the Tokugawa shogunate took power, Buddhism was separated from the state cult and forced to fend for itself. As a way to prevent the spread of Christianity, the Tokugawa shogunate forced the populac...
The Roman marriage ceremony of the early Roman Empire was heavy with symbolism. The ceremony was focused on the bride, and each aspect was an attempt to impart onto her the ideals of a Roman aristocratic woman. These symbols, such as the sex crines and the flammeum, were taken from various Roman priestesses, who were used as symbols of Roman marria...
