Professor Dame Mary Beard FBA
The history, literature and culture of the classical world, and its impact on later periods
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2010
- Subjects
- Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Current post
University of Cambridge Professor of Classics
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Miriam Leonard FBA
Ancient Greek literature; critical theory; the intellectual history of Classics since the eighteenth century; feminism and psychoanalysis
Professor Edith Hall FBA
Ancient Greek and Roman literature, especially epic, drama and literary aspects of philosophical prose; ethnicity, social class and gender in cultural history; the presence and impact of the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea Worlds in the global imagination since the Renaissance
Professor Caroline Humfress FBA
Late Antique and Early Medieval history; Christianity and Roman law; comparative histories of law; analysing historical questions in dialogue with current legal, anthropological and sociological research
