Lucia Prauscello

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Lucia Prauscello
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Lucia Prauscello is a Classicist who works on Greek Philology and Literature. She is a professor at the University of Oxford.

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Education

Prauscello completed her undergraduate degree at Pisa University in 1999, followed by a postgraduate degree at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa in 2003. [1]

Career

Prauscello held a Junior Research Fellowship at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (from 2003 to 2004) followed by a Momigliano Fellowship in Arts at UCL from 2004 to 2006. In 2005 Prauscello was appointed as a University Lecturer, later Senior University Lecturer, at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Trinity Hall. From 2016 to 2018 she was a University Reader at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Classics. In 2015 she held a Humboldt Fellowship at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. [2] Since 2018 she has been a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. [1] [3]

Prauscello is on the editorial board of Sapienza Università Editrice, the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Management Committee and since 2017 is a co-editor of the Cambridge Classical Journal. [1] She is an editor, with Alessandro Barchiesi, Robert Fowler and Nigel Wilson, of the series Sozomena, which is published for the Herculaneum Society by Walter de Gruyter.

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  2. "Humboldt Network". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
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