Catharine Edwards (historian)
Catharine Edwards | |
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| Born | Catharine Harmon Edwards 27 May 1963 |
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| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
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| Discipline | Ancient history |
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Catharine Harmon Edwards Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a specialist in Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature, particularly Seneca the Younger.
Early life and education
Edwards was born on 27 May 1963 in
doctoral thesis was titled "Transgression and control: studies in ancient Roman immorality".[3]
Academic career
Edwards began her academic career as a
junior research fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge from 1988 to 1989. She then moved to the University of Bristol where she was a lecturer from 1989. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 1997 and to reader in 1999.[1]
Edwards joined
Birkbeck College, University of London in 2001 as a lecturer.[1] She has been Professor of Classics and Ancient History since 2006.[2]
Edwards researches Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature, particularly Seneca the Younger. She also researches the reception of Classical antiquity in later periods.[2]
Edwards is the presenter of the three-part
Marcus Aurelieus.[2]
She served as president of the
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies from June 2015 to June 2018.[5] In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[6]
Selected publications
- The politics of immorality in ancient Rome. Cambridge University Press, 1993.[7]
- Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City. Cambridge University Press, 1996.[8]
- Rome the Cosmopolis. Cambridge University Press, 2003. (edited with Greg Woolf).[9][10][11]
- Death in ancient Rome. Yale University Press, 2007.[12][13][14]
References
- ^ Who's Who 2023. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ^ a b c d Catharine Edwards. Archived 20 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine Birkbeck College. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- . Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ^ Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome, BBC. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
- ^ "About the Society: Officers". Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Archived from the original on 28 September 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- ^ "Professor Catharine Edwards FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- JSTOR 270611
- ^ Pearcy, Lee T. (18 January 1998), "Catharine Edwards, Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City", Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- JSTOR 40110658
- ^ Trimble, Jennifer (9 August 2004), "Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf, Rome the Cosmopolis", Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- ^ Bartsch, Shadi (15 November 2007), "Dying to Make a Point", London Review of Books, 29 (22): 3–6
- ^ Schrumpf, Stefan (28 December 2007), "Catharine Edwards, Death in Ancient Rome", Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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