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Faculty of Classics

 

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 explores the temporality of Greek epigram and considers how epigram anthologies construct literary histories.

Research

  • Hellenistic poetry

  • Greek lyric

  • Latin elegy and epigram

  • Readership in antiquity

  • Neo-Latin and Humanist Greek

  • History of classical scholarship

Publications

Key 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

Teaching: 

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 as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PTA).

Supervisor: Prof. Renaud Gagné
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis: Temporality and Difference in the Greek Anthology
Not available for consultancy

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Latest news

Election of two new Professors in the Faculty of Classics

27 March 2024

The Faculty is delighted to announce the election of Professor Josephine (Jo) Crawley Quinn to the Professorship of Ancient History and Professor Serafina Cuomo to the A. G. Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture . Jo will join the Faculty on 1 January 2025 and will be the first woman to hold the Professorship of Ancient...

Craven Seminar 2024

26 March 2024

The programme for the Craven Seminar 2024, ‘Interface Interpretation: exegesis as encounter in Greco-Roman literature’ , is now available online . This will be an in-person event. Please click here to register.

Classical Equalities Lecture 25 April 2024 at 17.00 in G19

4 March 2024

Jane Draycott will be giving this year’s Classical Equalities lecture, on ‘ Prostheses in Classical Antiquity: Everything You Never Knew You Wanted To Know’. Jane Draycott is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Glasgow. Her research investigates science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world. She has...

Soundmarks Project

12 February 2024

Soundmarks, an art/archaeology collaboration between Rose Ferraby, Cambridge Archaeologist, and Rob St John using sound and visual art launches at DIG in York. In 2019 the pair created work exploring and animating the sub-surface landscape of Aldborough Roman Town in North Yorkshire, UK. Soundmarks Aldborough was re-shown...