Education and Career History

Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, 1971-8

Undergraduate and graduate student, Balliol College, Oxford, 1978-85

Junior Lecturer in Latin, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1984-5

Woodhouse Junior Research Fellow in Classics, St. John’s College,Oxford, 1985-7

A.E.Haigh Teaching Fellow in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1987-92

Mynors and Charles Oldham Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1992-

University Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford, 1993-2000

Reader in Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford, 2000-2004

Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford, 2004-8

Adjunct Professor (Professor II), University of Bergen, Norway, 2004-2007

Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford, 2008-

Adjunct Professor (Professor II), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010-

Degrees, Grants, Awards, Memberships

Degrees: First Class, Literae Humaniores (BA in Classics), 1982,

MA 1985, DPhil 1987 ('A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10', supervisor

Prof.R.G.M.Nisbet, examiners Prof.E.J.Kenney and Miss M.Hubbard)

University Prizes and Awards: Hertford Prize 1980, Second Craven Scholarship

1980, Passmore Edwards Prize 1984, Schmidt Scholarship 1984, Gaisford

Dissertation Prize 1986, Teaching Award 2008

Research Awards and Grants: British Academy/Leverhulme Senior

Research Fellow 1997-8 (£20,000); British Academy Conference Grant 1997

(£800); British Academy Joint Activities Fund grantholder for 2001-3 (£1000),

British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 2003 (£350), Research Leave

grant from Loeb Classical Foundation 2009 ($30,000), British Academy Small

Research Grant 2010 (£1760)

Professional Memberships: Classical Association, Society for the

Promotion of Roman Studies, Joint Association of Classical Teachers,

Oxford Philological Society, Cambridge Philological Society, American

Philological Association, Horatian Society, Vergilian Society, Society for Neo-Latin Studies.

Academic Honours: elected to Academia Europaea 2007, to Accademia

Vergiliana di Mantova 2012 (Accademico ordinario).

Editorial and advisory roles

Founder member, Classical Reception Studies Network (UK), 2004-

[joint co-ordinator 2011-14]

Oxford member, Réseau international de recherche et de formation à la

recherche sur la poésie augustéenne (France), 2006-

Advisory Committee of the Graduate School, University of Padova 2008-

Member, AHRC Peer Review College 2009-12

Fellowship assessor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 2011 and 2012

Grant assessor, MIUR/ANVUR (Italian education ministry), 2012-

Assessor, VQR (Italian REF), 2012-13

Member of advisory committee, Oxford Classical Texts, 2003-

Associate editor for Latin Literature, Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2009-

Associate editor for Latin Culture, Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2008-2013

Advisory board member, The Virgil Encyclopedia (USA), 2008-

European Advisory board member, Princeton University Press, 2011-

Advisory board member, I.B.Tauris Classics and Ancient History, 2011-

Founding member of editorial board, Ancient Narrative, (Netherlands), 2000-

Latin Literature associate editor, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (USA), 2003-

Editorial board member, Acta Classica (S.Africa), 2006-

Member of Scientific Committee, Ordia Prima (Argentina), 2006-

Founder member of international advisory board, New Voices in

Classical Reception Studies (UK), 2006-

Founder editorial board member, Trends in Classics (Greece), 2007-

Editorial board member, Classica et Mediaevalia (Denmark), 2007-

Editorial board member, Classical Bulletin (USA), 2009-

Founder advisory board member, Classics Reception Journal (UK), 2009-

Founder advisory board member, Trondheim Studies in Greek and

Latin (Norway), 2009-

Advisory board member, Aevum antiquum (Italy), 2011-

Advisory board member, Studi di filologia classica (Italy), 2011-

Advisory board member, Mnemosyne (Netherlands), 2012-

Founder advisory board member, «Permanenza del Classico – Testi» (Italy), 2012-

Advisory board member, Minerva (Spain), 2012-

Editorial board member, Eirene (Czech Republic), 2013-