Professor Emily Gowers FBA

Latin literature of the Republic and Principate, especially satire; poetics; cultural history of Rome
Portrait of a smiling Emily Gowers sat in some sunlight
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Classics

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 Peter Thonemann FBA

Peter Thonemann has published widely on the history and archaeology of Asia Minor in antiquity and he has a particular interest in epigraphic documents from central and western Anatolia.

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Professor Dame Mary Beard FBA

The history, literature and culture of the classical world, and its impact on later periods

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Professor Judith Lieu FBA

The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts

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