Susanna Braund
Professor of Latin poetry
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Susanna H. Morton Braund (born 6 February 1957) is a professor of Latin poetry and its reception at the University of British Columbia.[1][2]
Susanna M. Braund | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Professor of Latin Poetry and its Reception |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA and PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia |
Education
Braund received her BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge in 1978, followed by a PhD in 1984 from the same institution.[1]
Career
Braund held appointments at the University of Exeter, the University of Bristol, Royal Holloway, University of London, Yale University and Stanford University before taking up her current professorship.[3][4]
Since 2007, Braund has held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair position in Latin Poetry and its Reception, which was renewed in 2014.[1] Her research is on the translation history of Latin poetry.[5]
Braund was elected as a Scholar in Residence at the Collège de France for June 2014.[6][7]
In 2016, Braund was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship for the years 2016–2018,[1] for a project on translations of Virgil's Aeneid, Georgics and Eclogues.[8]
In 2018, Braund was elected as Corresponding Fellow to the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[4]
Selected bibliography
Translations and editions
- Seneca, De Clementia: Edited with Text, Translation and Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009) ISBN 978-0-19-960780-8.
- Juvenal and Persius (Loeb Classical Library vol. 91) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2004) Parallel text Latin edition and English translation of both authors' works, with an introduction. ISBN 978-0-674-99612-0.
- Juvenal, Satires Book I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996). Text with an introduction and commentary. ISBN 978-1-316-52980-5.
- Lucan, Civil War: Translated with introduction and notes (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1992) Reissued as part of Oxford World's Classics.
Books and edited volumes
- Virgil and his Translators, ed. with Zara Martirosova Torlone (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018), ISBN 978-0-19-881081-0.
- Latin Literature (London and New York: Routledge 2002) ISBN 978-0-415-19518-8. Second edition: Understanding Latin Literature (London and New York: Routledge 2017) ISBN 978-1-138-64539-4).
- The Roman Satirists and their Masks (London: Bristol Classical Press/Duckworth 1996) ISBN 978-1-85399-139-4.
- Satire and Society in Ancient Rome (Exeter Studies in History 23), (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 1989) ISBN 978-0-85989-331-2.
- Beyond Anger: A Study of Juvenal’s Third Book of Satires (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1988) ISBN 978-0-521-35637-4.
Podcast appearances
- Entitled Opinions: 'Susanna Braund on Virgil's Aeneid'. 25 October 2005.