Douglas Cairns#
Membership Number: | 3514 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2013 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/about-us/staff-profiles/douglas-cairns |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 George R. Langford Family Eminent Scholar Chair, Florida State University
- 2008 Visiting Professor of Classics, Kyoto University
- 2004 - present Professor of Classics, University of Edinburgh
- 1999 - 2004 Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow
- 1992 - 1999 Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Leeds
- 1988 - 1992 Lecturer in Classics, University of Otago
- 1987 - 1988 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Leverhulme Trust, Georg-August University, Göttingen
- 1986 Lecturer in Greek, University of St Andrews
Fields of Scholarship
- Emotions in Greek culture
- Greek literature
- Greek poetry
- Tragedy
- Homer
Honours and Awards
- 2008 - 2011 Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust
- 1993 - 1995 2011 Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation