Professor Robert Fowler FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Summary
Robert Fowler was born in Palmerston, Ontario, Canada in 1954. He was educated at the University of Toronto Schools, the University of Toronto (BA 1976, MA 1977) and Oxford (DPhil 1980). After a year's post-doctoral fellowship at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, he worked at the University of Waterloo, Ontario,for 15 years before taking up the H.O. Wills Chair of Greek at the University of Bristol in 1996. He retired from the Chair in 2017 and is now Emeritus Professor of Greek.
Current post
University of Bristol Henry Overton Wills Emeritus Professor of Greek
Past appointments
University of Bristol Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek
1996 - 2017
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor William Fitzgerald FBA
Latin poetry, reception of the ancient world, neoclassicism, comparative literature, music and literature.
Professor Dr Irene De Jong FBA
Ancient Greek narrative, especially epic and historiography; the application of modern literary theory, especially narratology, on ancient texts; Greek literary history
