Simon Goldhill#
| Membership Number: | 6384 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge
- Foreign Secretary, British Academy
- Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge
- 2010 - 2017 Director, CRASSH, Cambridge
- 2013 - 2007 John Harvard Professor in the Humanities, Cambridge
- 1998 - 2002 Reader in Greek Literature and Culture, Cambridge
- 1988 - 1997 Lecturer in Greek Literature, Cambridge
- 1985 - 1988 College Lecturer, King’s College, Cambridge
- 1981 - 1985 Junior Research Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Literary theory
- Greek culture
- Reception
- Cities
- 19th century literature and culture
- Later Greek literature
- Greek tragedy
Honours and Awards
- 2012 - 2017 PI, ERC Advanced Grant “Bible and Antiquity in 19th century”, €2.5 Million
- 2015 Fellow, British Academy
- 2009 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2020 Corresponding Fellow, Australian Academy of Humanities
- 2013 Runciman Prize, for Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
- 2012 Robert Lowry Patten Prize, for Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
- 2010 Gold Medal for History, Independent Publishers Association for Jerusalem, City of Longing
- 2011 - 2012 Onassis Lectures
- 2010 Martin Lectures
