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 Michael Silk FBA

Ancient Greek poetry and drama; the classical tradition, especially in English poetry and German thought; Nietzsche; poetics and poetic language; theories of literature

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Professor Lucia Prauscello FBA

Lucia Prauscello specialises in Greek language, literature and culture with a special focus on the edition of ancient texts (especially lyric) and the history of their transmission, the process of canon formation, literary papyrology, and ancient scholarship.

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Professor Robert A Kaster FBA

Robert A Kaster has taught and written primarily in the areas of Roman rhetoric, the history of ancient education, Latin textual criticism, and Roman ethics and the history of the emotions.

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