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Faculty of Classics

 

Biography

Double BA in Latin and Greek (2017-2021)
University of Iceland (with an exchange year at the University of Glasgow). First class with distinction.

MPhil in Classics (2021-2022)
Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Distinction.

PhD in Classics (2022 - ongoing)
Jesus College, University of Cambridge.
 

Research

Latin language and literature
Linguistics of Latin 
Historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics
The classical and Latin grammatical tradition, esp. in Iceland and Scandinavia.
 

Publications

Key publications: 

(forthcoming) 'Choosing how to say 'a letter' in a letter: Variation between epistula and litterae in the corpus of Ciceronian epistolography', Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics.

(forthcoming) 'Language change across the ancient lifespan: Variation in the genitive singular of second declension io-stems in Ovid', in Proceedings of the 22nd International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics.
 

Supervisor: Prof. James Clackson
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis: talis homo, qualis oratio - Language choices, self-positioning and social background in Latin letters from the late Republic
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Latest news

Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2024

18 October 2024

The Faculty is delighted to announce that both Dr Lea Niccolai and Dr Henry Spelman have been awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the 2024 competition. Professor Anna Vignoles, Director of the Leverhulme Trust, said: “Now in its twenty-third year, this scheme continues to attract applications from extraordinarily high...

Elen Wynne Vanstone Award

3 October 2024

The Faculty would like to congratulate Sólveig Hilmarsdóttir for winning the The British Federation of Women Graduates' Elen Wynne Vanstone Award for her work Talis homo qualis oratio: social status and its connection to the language of Roman writers. Sólveig works on the interface between Latin linguistics and Latin...

Exhibition awarded 5 stars

23 July 2024

The new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Paris 1924: Sport, Art, and the Body , Co-curated by Classics' Carrie Vout has been awarded 5 stars by the Guardian. "Timed to coincide with next week’s return of the Olympics to the French capital – is a revelation from first to last. You soon begin to realise that those Games...