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Faculty of Classics

 

Biography

I am a doctoral student funded by a Jebb Studentship and by Corpus Christi College, where I also completed my BA (2019) and MPhil (2020). My thesis explores the temporality of Greek epigram and considers how epigram anthologies construct literary histories.

Research

  • Hellenistic poetry

  • Greek lyric

  • Latin elegy and epigram

  • Readership in antiquity

  • Neo-Latin and Humanist Greek

  • History of classical scholarship

Publications

Key publications: 

McDougall, B. (2023). ‘Sappho 1.18-19 Revisited’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 225: 3-12.

McDougall, B. (2022). Review: R. Hunter, Greek Epitaphic Poetry. The Classical Review 73 (1): 43-5.

Kachuck, A. J.; McDougall, B. (2022). ‘Why Cambridge Needs Greek: Richard Croke, Orationes duae’ in G. Manuwald, L. Nicholas (eds.) Anthology of Neo-Latin in British Universities. London: Bloomsbury.

Teaching and Supervisions

Teaching: 

I offer supervisions to several colleges in Greek and Latin language, literature, and composition (prose and verse) at a range of levels.

I also lead reading classes on set texts for the Faculty of Classics as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PTA).

Supervisor: Prof. Renaud Gagné
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis: Temporality and Difference in the Greek Anthology
Not available for consultancy

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Latest news

New appointment in Latin literature

15 May 2024

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Elena Giusti as a new Assistant Professor of Latin literature. She will join the Faculty in the new academic year. Elena will be joining from the University of Warwick, where she is currently Associate Professor of Latin . She works broadly on Roman literature and...

AHRC CDP studentship - Acquiring the Mediterranean: exploring local agencies in the acquisition of antiquities from Greece and the Ottoman Empire by Charles Newton at the British Museum, 1861–1886.

9 May 2024

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship Acquiring the Mediterranean: exploring local agencies in the acquisition of antiquities from Greece and the Ottoman Empire by Charles Newton at the British Museum, 1861–1886. The Faculty of Classics and the British Museum are excited to announce a fully funded...

Celebrating ECR successes

1 May 2024

The Faculty of Classics would like to congratulate our Early Career Researchers who have secured new positions elsewhere in the UK and abroad. We thank Il-Kweon, Michael, Tom and Ludo for all their contributions to our Classics community and wish them the very best for the next steps in their careers. Dr Il-Kweon Sir has...

Professor Caroline Vout's Olympic Exhibition in the News

18 April 2024

This summer Professor Caroline Vout is co-curating an Olympic Exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 'Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body' which looks back on the pivotal moment, 100 years ago, when traditions and trailblazers collided, fusing the Olympics’ classical legacy with the European avant-garde spirit. It was a...