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Professor Emily Gowers FBA

Latin literature of the Republic and Principate, especially satire; poetics; cultural history of Rome

Elected 2019

Portrait of a smiling Emily Gowers sat in some sunlight

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2019
Sections: Classical Antiquity
Website: https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/emily-gowers

Current post

University of Cambridge Professor of Latin Literature

St John’s College, Cambridge Fellow

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Reader

2013 - 2016

University of Cambridge Senior Lecturer

2009 - 2013

University of Cambridge Lecturer

2002 - 2009

Princeton University Lecturer

2000 - 2002

University College London Lecturer

1991 - 1993

Trinity College, Cambridge Title A (Junior Research) Fellowship

1988 - 1991

Publications

Horace: Satires Book I

Emily Gowers - Published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press

Ennius Perennis: the Annals and Beyond

William Fitzgerald and Emily Gowers - Published in 2007 by Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement

The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature

Emily Gowers - Published in 1993 by Clarendon Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor James Diggle FBA

Classics and Ancient History

Professor Catharine Edwards FBA

Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature (particularly Seneca and Cicero); the reception of Roman antiquity in the 19th century

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Professor Michael Reeve FBA

Classics

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