Prof. Stephen J. Harrison MA, DPhil

Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College
Professor of Latin Literature, Faculty of Classics
Advisory Board, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

Corpus Christi College
Oxford,
OX1 4JF

Tel: (01865) 276762

stephen.harrison@ccc.ox.ac.uk

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjh/

Profile

Stephen Harrison has been teaching Classics at Corpus since 1987. His main research and teaching interests are in Latin literature and its reception. He has written books on Virgil, Horace and on the Roman novelist Apuleius, and has edited or co-authored various books on Virgil, Horace, the Roman Novel, Classics and literary theory and Latin literature in general. Most recently he has written Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (OUP 2007) and edited Living Classics (OUP 2009), on the use of Greece and Rome in contemporary poetry in English. He is currently working on further books on Horace and Apuleius. He is very interested in how Classics is taught and researched elsewhere in the world. Outside his tutorial duties (still very much the core of what he does) he has been a visiting lecturer in five continents, makes regular visits to North America and Italy, has worked for some years on collaborative Latin commentary projects in the Netherlands and Germany, and is a (very) part-time visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen. For more on his academic activities and publications see his website at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjh.

Research Interests

Augustan Poetry, Ancient Novel, esp. Apuleius, Classical Reception (especially 19C and 20C UK).

For a complete list of publications see my website.

Selected Recent Publications

2000: Apuleius: A Latin Sophist, Oxford University Press.
2005: (ed.) A Companion to Latin Literature, Blackwell/Wiley.
2007: (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Horace.
2007: Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace, Oxford University Press.
2009: (ed.) Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English.

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