Susanna M. Braund | |
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Occupation(s) | 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 |
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]
Braund received her BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge in 1978,followed by a PhD in 1984 from the same institution. [1]
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]