Professor Stephen Harrison
Professor of Latin Literature · Oxford JS-Rendered Departments (Playwright seed) · University of Oxford
Quick answer: Professor Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at University of Oxford. Professor Stephen Harrison shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ I am happy to take on new doctoral students in the areas of neo-Latin and the reception of classical Latin literature.
Research interests
My main research interests are in Latin literature and its reception, particularly Augustan poetry (esp. Vergil and Horace), the Roman novel (esp. Apuleius) and neo-Latin (esp. the great 16C Scottish neo-Latin poet George Buchanan, whose Silvae I am currently editing). Recent authored books include [sole author] The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII (Bloomsbury, 2024), [with Regine May] Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 (OUP, 2024), and [with Lorna Hardwick and Elizabeth Vandiver] and Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen: Classical Connections (OUP 2024). Recent co-edited books include [with Paolo Dainotti and Alexandre Hasegawa] Style in Latin Poetry (De Gruyter, 2024) and [with Gesine Manuwald, William Barton and Bobby Xinyue], An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars (Bloomsbury, 2024). I am currently co-editing an anthology of neo-Latin literature by women for Bloomsbury and a collective volume on Seamus Heaney’s translation of Aeneid 6 for OUP. For a full publication list see http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjh/.
Selected publications (since 2023)
The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII (Bloomsbury, 2024)
[with Regine May] Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 (OUP, 2024)
[with Lorna Hardwick and Elizabeth Vandiver] (both OUP, 2024, the first a shorter version of the second)
Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry: Making Connections
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen: Classical Connections
Tony Harrison and Rome’, in Sandie Byrne, ed., Tony Harrison and The Classics (OUP, 2022), 57-74.
‘A Professor in Scottish Politics: Andrew Melville (1545–1622), Stephaniskion’ in Gesine Manuwald and Lucy R. Nicholas, eds, An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities (Bloomsbury, 2022) 95-122.
‘Papal Paradise: Maffeo Barberini's Verse Letter to L
Frequently asked questions
Is Professor Stephen Harrison hiring PhD students at University of Oxford?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Professor Stephen Harrison's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: I am happy to take on new doctoral students in the areas of neo-Latin and the reception of classical Latin literature..
What does Professor Stephen Harrison research?
My main research interests are in Latin literature and its reception, particularly Augustan poetry (esp. Vergil and Horace), the Roman novel (esp. Apuleius) and neo-Latin (esp. the great 16C Scottish neo-Latin poet George Buchanan, whose Silvae I am currently editing). Recent authored books include
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