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Faculty of Classics

 
Widely recognized as one of the most intellectually innovative centres for the study of Greek and Latin literature, Cambridge is characterised by an atmosphere of lively debate and collective enterprise. Members of the A Caucus work on the whole range of ancient authors and their cultural contexts, from Homer to Isidore. Our strengths include cultural poetics, comparative literature, gender studies, palaeography, reception studies and the study of texts and their transmission (this is, after all, the home of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series).
The weekly literary seminar is a renowned forum for discussion of ancient literature and provides an important social as well as intellectual focus; leading international scholars present their research, as well as graduate students and faculty.
We also offer excellent resources for postgraduate study. For example, MPhil students have their own weekly seminar (where they are introduced to textual criticism, bibliographical methods and theoretical approaches) and they present work in progress both there and at an interdisciplinary seminar for all graduates. Cambridge PhD students have been instrumental in extending the annual joint Oxbridge graduate conference (AMPAL) to the whole of the UK. A constant stream of visitors from around the world makes Cambridge an especially stimulating place to study ancient literature.
The influence of Cambridge in this field has spread far and wide. Cambridge Classics PhDs who hold senior posts in the UK and beyond include Danielle Allen (Institute for Advanced Study), Susanna Morton Braund (Vancouver), Monica Gale (TCD), Roy Gibson (Manchester), Mark Griffith (Berkeley), Stephen Hinds (Seattle), Duncan Kennedy (Bristol), Jim McKeown (Madison), Alison Sharrock (Manchester), Gareth Williams (Columbia), Peter Wilson (Sydney) and Maria Wyke (UCL).

Associate Professor in Classics
Fellow in Classics, Gonville and Caius College
Research Fellow in Classics
Sidney Sussex College
Senior Lecturer in Classics (Ancient Literature)
Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, Queens' College
Dr Renaud  Gagné
Professor of Ancient Greek Literature and Religion
Fellow of Pembroke College
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Dr Ingo  Gildenhard
Professor of Classics and the Classical Tradition
Fellow and Director of Studies at King's College
Professor of Greek Literature and Culture
Fellow, King's College
Professor of Latin Literature
Fellow of St John's College
 Daniel  Hanigan
Praeceptor in Classics at Corpus Christi College
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
Title of Thesis: The Politics of Form in Imperial Greek Periplography
Professor Philip  Hardie
Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College
Honorary Professor of Latin
Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek
Fellow of Trinity College
Dr Christian  Keime
Teaching Associate in Classics (Greek and Roman Philosophy)
Dr Rebecca  Laemmle
Associate Professor in Classics (Greek Literature)
Director of Postgraduate Admissions in Classics
Fellow & Postgraduate Tutor of Pembroke College
Dr Max  Leventhal
Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Classics
Research Fellow, Clare Hall
Director of Studies in Classics, Downing College
Assistant Professor in Classics (Late Antique and Early Byzantine History)
Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, Trinity College
Professor Stephen  Oakley
Kennedy Professor of Latin
Fellow of Emmanuel College
University Associate Professor
Fellow and Director of Studies at King's College
Director of Studies at Robinson College
 Ludovico  Pontiggia
Language Teaching Officer
College Research Associate, Clare College
Dr Robert A. Rohland
Junior Research Fellow in Classics, Title A
Trinity College
Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Classics
Bye-Fellow in Classics, Downing College
Dr Il-Kweon  Sir
Teaching Associate in Classics
Assistant Professor in Classics
Dr Helen  Van Noorden
Wrigley Fellow, Director of Studies and College Associate Professor in Classics
Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics
Professor of Classics
Director of the Museum of Classical Archaeology (on sabbatical, Michaelmas 2023)
Fellow in Classics at Christ's College and Director of Studies, Prelim and IA
Byvanck Chair of Classical Archaeology/Art History at the University of Leiden
Dr Charles  Weiss
University Associate Professor
Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Clare College
Professor of Latin Literature
Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, Emmanuel College
Fellow of Trinity College
William Ritchie Professor of Classics, The University of Sydney

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