[1] Malik studied at the University of Bristol, completing a PhD in Classics and Ancient History in 2013.
[4] Her monograph, The Nero-Antichrist: founding and fashioning a paradigm, described as 'a sophisticated [...] reception history of Nero’s legacy'[5], was published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press.
She has twice appeared on In Our Time (radio series) once discussing Tiberius in 2023[7] and once Nero in 2019.
[8] She has appeared on several documentaries as an expert contributor,[9] and her article on Statecraft and the Roman Republic was published in the programme for the National Theatre's production of Coriolanus.
[10] While a lecturer at the University of Queensland, she become known for her Mythbusting Ancient Rome series, written with Caillan Davenport and published on The Conversation.