Professor Chris Carey FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- Classics, Law
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity , Law
Summary
I began my career in Cambridge, where I was a research fellow at Jesus College, before moving to St Andrews, where I taught from 1977 to 1991, except for a visiting professorship at University of Minnesota in 1987-8; while there I also taught at Carleton College, Minnesota. I was Professor of Classics at Royal Holloway from 1991, before coming to UCL to take up the Chair of Greek in 2003. My research interests include Greek lyric poetry, tragedy and comedy, oratory, rhetoric and law.
Current post
University College London Emeritus Professor of Greek
Past appointments
Department of Greek and Latin, University College London Professor of Greek
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies President
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Ingrid De Smet FBA
Renaissance and Early Modern intellectual culture, especially in France and the Low Countries; sixteenth and early-seventeenth century French literature; Neo-Latin Studies; the Republic of Letters; the Classical tradition
Professor Christopher Pelling FBA
Greek and Latin historiography and biography, especially the literary criticism of prose texts, in particular Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and Tacitus
