Dr Gail Trimble MA Dphil

Trinity College
Oxford,
OX1 3BH

Tel: (01865) 279854

gail.trimble@trinity.ox.ac.uk

Profile

I took my first degree, MSt and Dphil in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford between 2000 and 2010. After a year as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, I returned to Oxford to take up the Tutorial Fellowship at Trinity College here in 2011. I teach most of the undergraduate options in Latin literature as well as Hellenistic Poetry and the Iliad. I also teach Latin language and Latin textual criticism. I would be interested in supervising graduate students wishing to work on Catullus, Lucretius or the Augustan poets.

Research Interests

Latin poetry, especially Catullus; Literary form, voice and fictionality; pastoral

Selected Recent Publications

2009: ‘Verbal arithmetic’, review of K. Volk, Manilius and his Intellectual Background, (OUP, 2009), TLS 2 October.
2009: ‘Like the hero’, review of A.M. Juster (translator), The Satires of Horace, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008),TLS 29 April.
2010: translator of L.O. Nielsen and C. Trifogli eds. Thomas Wylton: On the Intellectual Soul, Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, OUP.
2010: review of J.H. Gaisser, Catullus, Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World, (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), CR60, 432-4.
2010: ‘Thesea fide: heroic faith and faithlessness in Ovid’s exile poetry’, in L. Langerwerf and C. Ryan eds. Zero to Hero, Hero to Zero: in search of the classical hero, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 73-95.
2011: ‘How the Romans read’, review of S. Butler, The Matter of the Page (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011) and W.A. Johnson, Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire , (OUP,2010), TLS 1 July.
2011: review of C. Battistella ed. P. Ovidii Nasonis ‘Heroidum Epistula’ 10: Ariadne Theseo. Introduzione, testo e commento (De Gruyter, 2010), BMCR 2011.05.06.
2012: review of S.J. Green and K. Volk eds. Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius’ Astronomica, (OUP 2010), CR, 62, 514-16.
2012: review of S.C. Stroup, Catullus, Cicero, and a Society of Patrons, (OUP 2010), JRS, 102, 378-9.
2012: ‘Catullus and “comment in English”: the tradition of the expurgated commentary before Fordyce’, in C. Stray and S.J. Harrison eds. Expurgating the Classics (Bloomsbury).
2012: '‘Catullus 64: the perfect epyllion?’, in M. Baumbach and S. Bär eds. Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion (Brill).
2013: (in press) ‘Catullus 64 and the prophetic voice in Virgil’s fourth Eclogue’, in J. Farrell and D.P. Nelis eds. The Roman Republic in Augustan Poetry, OUP.

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