Philomen Probert FBA | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 (age 51–52) |
| Title | Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford St John's College, Oxford |
| Thesis | Studies in ancient Greek accentuation (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Anna Morpurgo Davies |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics Linguistics |
| Institutions | Faculty of Classics,University of Oxford Wolfson College,Oxford |
Philomen Probert FBA (born 1973) is a British classicist and academic,specialising in linguistics. She is Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford.
Probert was born in 1973 in London,England. [1] From 1991 to 1995,she studied Literae Humaniores (i.e. classics) at Exeter College,Oxford,graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. [2] Remaining at Exeter College,she undertook postgraduate studies in general linguistics and comparative philology,completing her Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in 1997. [2] She then moved to St John's College,Oxford,where she undertook research towards her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree under the supervision of Anna Morpurgo Davies. [2] She completed her DPhil in 2000 with a thesis titled "Studies in ancient Greek accentuation". [3] [4] Her doctoral thesis won the 2002 Conington Prize from the Faculty of Classics. [5]
In 1999,Probert was appointed lecturer in Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford and elected a Fellow of Wolfson College,Oxford. [2] In the 2006/2007 academic year,she researched relative clauses in Greek on fellowship at the Center of Hellenic Studies at Harvard University. [6] In 2011 she received a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to continue this research. [7] In September 2016,she was awarded a Title of Distinction as Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics. [8] She was the Acting President of Wolfson College between October 2017 and April 2018. [9] In 2024,she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. [10]
Her research is focused on Ancient Greek,Latin,Anatolian and Indo-European linguistics,and the Graeco-Roman grammatical tradition. [11]
Probert entered a civil partnership with Eleanor Dickey in 2008, [12] and they have since been married. [13]