Professor Stephen Halliwell FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2014
- Subjects
- Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Summary
Stephen Halliwell was Professor of Greek at St Andrews from 1995 to 2020 and Wardlaw Professor of Classics from 2014 to 2020. He received his MA and DPhil from the University of Oxford, where his doctoral thesis on Aristophanes was supervised by Sir Kenneth Dover. He has taught at the universities of Birmingham, Cambridge – where he was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College – London and Oxford – where he was a lecturer at Jesus College – and has held six visiting professorships in Belgium (Louvain), Canada (McMaster), Italy (Rome), and the USA (Chicago, Cornell, UC Riverside). He has given some 200 invited research lectures in 18 countries, including papers in French, German and Italian. He has worked as an assessor for research councils and institutes in ten countries and has served on numerous boards, including those of the Classical Association of Scotland, the Collegium for Advanced Studies (Helsinki), the Council of University Classics Departments, the journal Greece and Rome, the Languages, Literature and History sectional committee of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Two of his books have won international prizes – The Aesthetics of Mimesis was awarded the Premio Europeo di Estetica 2008, and Greek Laughter the Criticos Prize 2008. His major edition of Pseudo-Longinus, On the Sublime, was commissioned by the Lorenzo Valla Foundation and published first in Italian (Mondadori, 2021) before appearing in English (Oxford University Press, 2022). He is President of the Classical Association for 2024-25.
Current post
University of St Andrews Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of Greek
2020 -
Past appointments
University of St Andrews Wardlaw Professor of Classics
2014 - 2020
University of St Andrews Professor of Greek
1995 - 2020
University of Birmingham Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in Classics
1984 - 1995
University of Cambridge Fellow of Corpus Christi College
1982 - 1984
Westfield College Lecturer in Classics
1980 - 1982
Jesus College, University of Oxford College Lecturer
1979 - 1980
Top picks
Aristotle's Poetics
Radio
Stephen Halliwell discusses arguably the most influential of all works of literary theory on 'In Our Time' with Lord Melvyn Bragg FBA (Hon) and Professor Angie Hobbs.
Did comedy kill Socrates?
Article
Stephen Halliwell writes for the Oxford University Press about the theory that a comedic play by Aristophanes helped bring about the death of Socrates.
Greek Gods and the Archaic Aesthetics of Life
Video
Stephen Halliwell gives a lecture at the Institute for Philosophy and Religion as part of their series 'Beyond Aesthetics: Philosophical and Theological Construals of Art'
Publications
Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus
Stephen Halliwell - Published in 2011 by Oxford University Press
Greek Laughter: a Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity
Stephen Halliwell - Published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press
The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems
Stephen Halliwell - Published in 2002 by Princeton University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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
Professor Terence Irwin FBA
Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism. Kant. Moral philosophy, especially its history
Professor Denis Knoepfler FBA
Ancient History of the Mediterranean world: Greek inscriptions and coinages focused on central Greece; Greek onomastics; archaeological excavations at Eretria-Amarynthos.
