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
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
Professor of
Latin Literature, University of Oxford, 2008-
Senior Research
Fellow in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 2020-
Extraordinary
Professor, Department of Ancient Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 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.
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, 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
Member of advisory
committee, Oxford Classical Texts, 2003-18
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-
Member
of Editorial Board, IConiC (= Innovative
Contributions in Classics), Brepols, 2023-
Founding member of
editorial board, Ancient Narrative,
(Netherlands), 2000-
Latin Literature
associate editor, Bryn Mawr Classical
Review (USA), 2003-2020
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-