Emily Gowers#
| Membership Number: | 3626 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/emily-gowers |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 Spring Semester, Visiting Professor, Princeton University
- 2013 Reader in Latin Literature, University of Cambridge
- 2012 Autumn Quarter, Visiting Professor and Distinguished Webster Lecturer, Stanford University
- 2009 - 2013 Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge
- 2002 - 2009 Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge
- 2000 - 2002 Lecturer, Department of Classics, Princeton University
- 1998 - 2000 Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
- 1994 - Honorary Research Fellow, University College London
- 1991 - 1993 Lecturer in Latin, University College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Latin literature
- Roman culture
- Satire, especially Horace
- Comedy
- Epic, especially Virgil
- Poetry and poetics
- Travel literature
- History of food
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Premio Langhe Ceretto (per la cultura del cibo), international prize for book on cultural aspects of food (for The Loaded Table, Oxford 1993)
- 1990 Hare Prize (for best submitted dissertation on a classical subject, sole winner, awarded every three years), University of Cambridge
