In 2003 she started work at Roehampton where she was responsible for building up the BA Classical Civilisation.
Her research interests include ancient and modern Greek literature, folk poetry, anthropology and culture.
[3] She is an editor with Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Mark Masterson for the series Intersectionality in Classical Antiquity (Edinburgh University Press), which focuses on 'intersectional approaches to sexuality and gender in Greco-Roman Antiquity...with a range of other factors including race, ethnicity, class, ability, masculinity, femininity, transgender and post-colonial gender studies'.
[7] McHardy's inaugural professorial lecture, entitled 'Ancient Greek Tiger Mothers', was held on October 8, 2018, at the University of Roehampton.
[8] McHardy is the author of Revenge in Athenian Culture (Bloomsbury, 2008);[9][10] and has co-edited the following five volumes: