Education and Career History
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, 1992-2020
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
Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford, 2008-
Senior Research Fellow in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford,
2020-
Adjunct Professor (Professor II), University of Bergen, Norway,
2004-2007
William Evans Visiting Fellow in Humanities, University of Otago,
New Zealand, 2006
Adjunct Professor (Professor II), University of Copenhagen,
Denmark, 2010-2020
Adjunct Professor (Professor II), National University of
Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 2015-2020
Edwin C. and Elizabeth A. Whitehead Fellow, Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, Winter Term 2015
William H. Bonsall Visiting Professor in the Humanities, Stanford
University, Winter Terms 2017, 2018, 2019
Sackler Lecturer, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of
Advanced Studies, University of Tel-Aviv, 2019
Erskine Oxford Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2020
Visiting Professor, Sapienza Università di Roma, 2020
Visiting Professor, Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the
Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2021
Visiting Professor, Università di Siena, 2022
Visiting Professor, Sorbonne Université (Paris IV), 2023
Visiting Professor, Università di Torino, 2023
Fellow, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies,
Innsbruck, 2024
Extraordinary Professor, Department of Ancient Studies, University
of Stellenbosch, S.Africa,
2018-
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)
Oxford 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
External 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), fellowship at Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton 2015
($50,000), Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 2017-20 (£154,000)
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),
to Norwegian Academy of Sciences 2014 (Historical/Philosophical Class),
to Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Foreign Member) 2016, to
Australian Academy of Humanities
(Corresponding Fellow) 2022; awarded honorary doctorates, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, 2019,
Norwegian National Technical University (Trondheim) 2022.
Festschrift 2024: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111577289/html
Editorial, strategic and
advisory roles
Founder member, Classical Reception Studies Network (UK), 2004-
[joint co-ordinator 2011-14]
Member of comité scientifique,
Réseau international de
recherche et de formation à la recherche sur la
poésie augustéenne (France), 2006-
Member, Flavian Epic Network (UK), 2012-
Member, Epic Poetry Network (EPN),
Germany, 2016-
Member, International Scientific
Committee, Asssociazione Rotta
di Enea, Italy, 2024-
Member, AHRC Peer Review College 2009-12
Fellowship assessor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton,
2011 and 2012
Grant assessor, MIUR/ANVUR/VQR (Italian education ministry), 2012-
Panel member, APELLA (Greek academic appointments), 2014-
Assessor, doctoral and post-doctoral proposals, Irish Research
Council 2017-
Member, University Network of International Academic Contacts, La
Sapienza, Rome 2019-
Member, doctoral college, University of Bari, Italy, 2019-22
Member, advisory board, AHRC research network ‘Baroque Latinity’,
UCL, 2019-2022
Member, advisory board, ERC project Classical Influences and Irish
Culture, Aarhus University 2019-2024
Founding member of editorial board, Ancient Narrative, (Netherlands),
2000-2022 (advisory board 2022-)
Member of advisory committee, Oxford Classical Texts, 2003-18
Latin Literature associate editor, Bryn Mawr
Classical Review (USA), 2003-2020
Associate editor for Latin Literature, Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2009-2020 (advisory editor 2020-)
Associate editor for Latin Culture, Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History,
2008-2013
Advisory board member, The
Virgil Encyclopedia (USA), 2008-14
European Advisory board member, Princeton University Press, 2011-15
Advisory board member, I.B.Tauris
Classics and Ancient History, 2011-15
Classical Delegate (board member), Oxford
University Press, 2015-2021
Co-Curator, Babel: Adventures in Translation, Exhiibition,
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2019
Founder co-editor, Neo-Latin Series,
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018-
Founder member, Advisory Board, Trends in
Classics – Scholarship in the Making (De Gruyter), 2020-
Founder co-editor, Oxford Classical Reception
Commentaries, 2020-
Editorial board member, Acta
Classica (S.Africa),
2006-
Member of Scientific Committee, Ordia Prima (Argentina), 2006-
Founder member of advisory board, New Voices in Classical Reception Studies (UK), 2006-
Founder editorial board member, Trends
in Classics (Greece/Germany), 2007-
Editorial board member, Classica
et Mediaevalia (Denmark), 2007-
Editorial board member, Vergilius (USA), 2009-2018
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, Testi e manuali per l’insegnamento universitario di latino
(Italy), 2011-
Advisory board member, Aevum antiquum (Italy), 2011-
Advisory board member, Studi di filologia classica (Italy),
2011-
Advisory board member, Mnemosyne
(Netherlands), 2012-19
Founder advisory board member, «Permanenza del
Classico – Testi» (Italy), 2012-
Advisory board member, Minerva (Spain), 2012-
Editorial board member, Eirene (Czechia), 2013-
Advisory board member, Paideia (Italy), 2014-
Editorial board member, Invigilata Lucernis (Italy), 2017-
Advisory board member, Littera Aperta (Spain),
2018-
Editorial board member, Athenaeum
(Italy), 2020-
Advisory board member, Exemplaria Classica
(Spain), 2020-
Member of comitatto scientifico, Erant
Olim (Italy), 2021-
Member of comitato scientifico, Dicti
Studiosus (Italy), 2022-
Member of Editorial Board, IConiC (=
Innovative Contributions in Classics), Brepols, 2023-
Member of Editorial Board, Translation and Literature (UK), 2024-
Member of comitato scientifico, Associazione Rotta di Enea (Italy), 2024-