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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) 'The sociolinguistics of exile: Ovid᾽s decreased usage of Greek in Tomis', Mnemosyne.

(forthcoming) 'The 2nd/3rd sg. endings of the future passive imperative in Latin', in D. Goldstein, D. Gunkel, S. Jamison and A. Yates, Proceedings of the 35th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference.

(2025) (with Haukur Þorgeirsson) 'From the Aeneid to accent theory: The application of classical learning in the medieval Icelandic Third Grammatical Treatise', International Journal of the Classical Tradition.

(2025) 'Choosing how to say 'a letter' in a letter: Variation between epistula and litterae in the corpus of Ciceronian epistolography', Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 11.1, 267-293.

(2024) 'Language change across the ancient lifespan: Variation in the genitive singular of second declension io-stems in Ovid', in L. Pultrová and M. Vaníková (eds.), Exploring Latin: Structures, Functions, Meanings Vol. I: Word, Berlin/Boston, pp. 15-29.

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