Professor Christopher Whitton
- Professor of Latin Literature
- Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, Emmanuel College
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Location
- Emmanuel College, Cambridge, CB2 3AP, clw36@cam.ac.uk
About
I was an undergraduate and graduate student at St John's College, Cambridge. Since 2007 I have taught in the Faculty of Classics and been a Fellow of Emmanuel College. I have also spent time at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, and at the Freie Universität Berlin and Rostock University as a Humboldt Fellow.
Research
I work on Latin literature of the early Roman Empire, especially Pliny the Younger and Tacitus, with particular interests in prose style, intertextuality and the intersection of literature and history. My main research projects at the moment are a 'green and yellow' commentary on Tacitus Annals 14, a book on associative intratextuality in Tacitus and a monograph provisionally entitled Tacitus revoiced: reading the Histories with Pliny the Younger.
I have supervised undergraduate dissertations and MPhil research on a range of topics and authors from Homer to Wieland, primarily on Latin literature. I have supervised doctoral work on Seneca, Tacitus, Juvenal, Suetonius and pseudo-Quintilian among others. I welcome enquiries from potential postgraduate students, especially but not only those working on imperial Latin prose and the Trajanic period.