Ewen (E.L.) Bowie, Emeritus Fellow. Research interests: Greek melic, elegiac, and iambic poetry, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Hellenistic poetry, the Greek novel, Greek poetry and prose and the literary culture of the high Roman Empire. Publications: many articles, esp. on the literary culture of the Greek world under the Roman Empire. His Cambridge ('green-and-yellow') commentary on Longus, Daphnis and Chloe was published in 2019. He is currently editing his articles for a 3-volume Greek Papers, to be published by Cambridge. To listen to Ewen Bowie's video lectures, please follow these links: Plutarch in ScotlandMasters, Slaves, Animals and Freedom: A Mytilenean Perspective; Poetry and Rhetoric on display.

Marion Durand, Tutorial Fellow in Ancient Philosophy and Associate Professor of Philosophy. Research Interests: ancient philosophy (especially The Stoics), philosophy of language, ancient logic, ancient grammar. Currently working on a monograph on the semantics of Stoic propositions.

Jaś  (John, J.R.) Elsner, Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology. Research interests: The reception of Greek and Roman art in antiquity and later periods, the relationship of art and religion, the genesis of late antique and Christian art in the period of the Second Sophistic, art and text in all periods, the historiography of art history and of Classics, comparative art history and religious history in the long late antiquity, early Buddhist art in India, the reception of antiquity in all later periods. Publications: Art and the Roman Viewer (1995), Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph (1998), (edited with Ian Rutherford) Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods (2005), Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text, (2007), Philostratus, editor with Ewen Bowie (2009), Images and Texts on the “Artemidorus Papyrus”, editor with Kai Brodersen, (2009), Life, Death and Representation: Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi, editor with Janet Huskinson, (2011), Saints: Faith at the Borders, editor with Françoise Meltzer, (2011), Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture, editor with Michel Meyer ( 2014), The Poetics of Late Latin Literature, editor with Jesús Hernandez Lobato (2017), Comparativism in Art History, editor (2017), The Ark of Civilization: Émigré scholars in Oxford in the Mid Twentieth Century, editor with Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider, (2017), Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, Ashmolean Museum (2017, with Stefanie Lenk and others), Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity: Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland, editor (2020).

Constanze Güthenke, E.P. Warren Praelector in Classics and Professor of Ancient Literatures. Research interests: The field of antiquity after antiquity, questions of the disciplinary shape of Classics (why, and how, do classicists ask the questions they ask?), historical and philosophical questions of reading and interpreting, transnational aspects of scholarship (asking what happens to classical knowledge when it migrates between places and contexts). Publications: Feeling and Classical Philology: Knowing Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Germany, 1790-1920 (Cambridge UP, 2020), Postclassicisms,(Chicago, 2019), jointly authored under the name The Postclassicisms Collective.

Stephen (S.J.) Harrison, Mynors and Charles Oldham Fellow and Tutor in Latin (until October 2020), Senior Research Fellow (from October 2020), Professor of Latin Literature. Research interests: Augustan Latin poetry, esp. Vergil and Horace, the Roman novel (esp. Apuleius), and the reception of Latin literature. Publications include commentaries on Vergil, Aeneid 10 (OUP, 1991), and Horace, Odes 2 (CUP, 2017) and  Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (2007); Apuleius: A Latin Sophist (OUP, 2000) and Framing The Ass: Literary Texture in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (OUP, 2014); and [ed.} Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (OUP, 2009), Victorian Horace; Classics and Class (Bloomsbury, 2017), and [co-ed.] Seamus Heaney and the Classics Bann Valley Muses (OUP, 2019).  For a full list see http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjh/. He is currently working with Prof. Regine May on a joint monograph on the reception of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche story in European literature since 1600 (see the recent conference volume they have co-edited, Cupid and Psyche. The Reception of Apuleius' Love Story since 1600  (De Gruyter, 2020) and on the neo-Latin poetry of George Buchanan and Pope Urban VIII.

Neil (N.B.) McLynn, Fellow, University Lecturer in Later Roman History. Research interests: history of later Roman Empire AD 250-550; historiography, ecclesiastical politics, religious history. Recent Publications: ‘Julian and the Christian Professors’, in Being Christian in Late Antiquity, ed. C. Harrison, C. Humfress, and I. Sandwell (Oxford, OUP, 2014); ‘Gregory’s Governors: paideia and patronage in Cappadocia’, in Literature and Society in the fourth century A.D., ed. L. Van Hoof and P. Van Nuffelen (Brill, Leiden, 2015); ‘Poetry and Pagans in Late Antique Rome: The Case of the Senator “Converted from the Christian Religion to Servitude to the Idols”’: in Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome, ed. M. R. Salzman, M. Saghy, and R. Lizzi Testa (Cambridge, CUP, 2016); ‘The Conference of Carthage Reconsidered’: in The Donatist Schism: Controversy and Contexts, ed. R. Miles (Liverpool, LUP, 2016); Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Studies (Oxford, OUP, 2018: co-edited with Anna Marmodoro). Currently working on a study of Gregory Nazianzen.

Giuseppe PezziniTutorial Fellow and Associate Professor in Latin Language and Literature. Interests: Early Latin Language and Literature (1st- C. BC), Roman Comedy, Textual Criticism, Linguistics, Metre, History of Classical Scholarship, Fiction Theory (ancient and modern). Currently finalising an edition and commentary on Terence Heauton Timorumenos (CUP), an edited volume on Rome and Pergamon (under review with OUP), a monograph on Tolkien’s literary theory (under review with CUP). Main publications: Terence and the verb ‘to be’ in Latin (OUP 2015), with Barney Taylor (ed.), Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (Cambridge: CUP, 2019), with James N. Adams and Anna Chahoud, Early Latin: Constructs, Diversity, Reception (Cambridge: CUP, 2022 in press).

Tobias Reinhardt, Corpus Professor of Latin. Research interests: Latin literature, Latin palaeography and textual criticism, ancient philosophy. Publications: Das Buch E der aristotelischen Topik - Untersuchungen zur Echtheitsfrage, Göttingen 2000 (Hypomnemata vol. 131; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), Cicero's Topica. Oxford 2003 (2003), Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria Bk. 2. (Edited jointly with Michael Winterbottom, 2006), numerous articles and reviews.

Emily Rutherford, Brock Junior Research Fellow in History. Research interests: Gender and sexuality, education and ideas in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain; classical reception; queer history and theory. Publications: Book manuscript in progress, Teaching Gender: Higher Education Reform and Heteronormativity in Britain, 1860–1939; articles on queerness, classical reception, and modern Britain in the Journal of the History of Ideas and Journal of British Studies.