Biography
I am a doctoral student funded by a Jebb Studentship and by Corpus Christi College, where I also completed my BA (2019) and MPhil (2020). My thesis considers poetry anthologies as texts of multiple temporalities, taking as its case study the Greek Anthology, a collection of Greek epigram spanning over a millennium of composition and re-composition. Stressing the non-linearity and unpredictability of readers' journeys through collected texts, I consider how anthological reading reconciles an epigrammatic temporality of momentary encounter with the diachronic environment within which the collection sets them.
Research
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Hellenistic poetry
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Imperial and late-antique Greek literature
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Greek lyric
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Latin elegy and epigram
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Readership in antiquity
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History of classical scholarship
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Neo-Latin and Humanist Greek
Publications
McDougall, B. (2023). ‘Sappho 1.18-19 Revisited’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 225: 3-12.
McDougall, B. (2022). Review: R. Hunter, Greek Epitaphic Poetry. The Classical Review 73 (1): 43-5.
Kachuck, A. J.; McDougall, B. (2022). ‘Why Cambridge Needs Greek: Richard Croke, Orationes duae’ in G. Manuwald, L. Nicholas (eds.) Anthology of Neo-Latin in British Universities. London: Bloomsbury.
Teaching and Supervisions
I offer supervisions to several colleges in Greek and Latin language, literature, and composition (prose and verse) at a range of levels.
I also lead reading classes on set texts for the Faculty of Classics.
