Stephen Oakley | |
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Born | 20 November 1958 |
Academic background | |
Education | Queens' College, Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Sub-discipline | Latin Literature |
Institutions | University of Reading Emmanuel College,Cambridge |
Main interests | Livy |
Stephen Phelps Oakley,FBA (born 20 November 1958) is a British classicist and academic. An expert on the work of Livy,he is the ninth Kennedy Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. [1] [2]
Oakley was born on 20 November 1958. [3] He was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire. He went on to study at Queens' College,Cambridge,where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1980 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1985. [4]
From 1984,he worked at the university's Emmanuel College,first as a research fellow and,from 1986,as an official fellow. In 1998,he accepted a position at the University of Reading which he held until 2007. He then returned to Cambridge to succeed Michael Reeve as the Kennedy Professor of Latin. [4]
In 2024,he held the Lyell Readership in Bibliography at the University of Oxford,giving the associated Lyell Lectures on the transmission of Latin text. [5]
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