Richard Tarrant | |
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| Education | Fordham University Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Robin Nisbet |
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| Discipline | Latin Literature |
| Sub-discipline | Textual Criticism |
| Institutions | University of Toronto Harvard University |
Richard John Tarrant is an American classicist and Emeritus Pope Professor of Latin at Harvard University. He is an expert on the textual criticism and the transmission of Latin poetry. [1]
A native of Brooklyn,Tarrant was educated at Fordham University,where he obtained a BA in 1966. He then moved to Oxford University and graduated with a DPhil from Corpus Christi College (1972).
From 1970,he taught at the University of Toronto,taking up a position at Harvard University in 1982. [2] In his time at the department,he served as its chairman (1988–94) and as the acting Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1995-6). [3]
Tarrant has held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study and Corpus Christi College,Oxford.
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