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Faculty of Classics

 

Biography

I am currently a Leverhulme Trust and Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Classics (2020-) and Bye-Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge. I completed my BA (2015) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and MSt (2016) and DPhil (2020) at Merton College, Oxford before moving to Cambridge.

Research

My research at present is focused on Greek and Latin lyric poetry, metre, and papyrology, particularly from literary, cognitive, historical, and social perspectives. Research interests include early Greek poetry more broadly, archaic Greek history, religion, and drama.

My current project aims to provide, for the first time, a history of literary associations of Greek and Latin lyric metres from the 7th century BCE to the 2nd century CE and to re-examine the relationship between metre and genre.

I am also completing my book, ‘Poetry and Performance in Alcaeus of Lesbos’ (forthcoming with Oxford University Press), which offers fresh approaches to Alcaeus and a new text and apparatus of fragments edited from autopsy of papyri alongside textual and interpretative essays of the fragments.

Publications

Key publications: 

Poetry and Performance in Alcaeus of Lesbos (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

‘Horace Odes 3.13: Intertexts and Interpretation’, Classical Quarterly (forthcoming).

‘New Light on Alcaeus fr. 45’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 216 (2020), 1-8.

Teaching Associate in Classics
Dr Il-Kweon  Sir
Not available for consultancy

Affiliations

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...