It is once again proofs day! This time for my piece on queering Latin love poetry in the Underworld, out in this year’s JRS. Hell is Other Poets: Tibullus, Ovid and Statius in Queer Elysium

Just in time for my class on the Georgics (and Quintilian Bk 10) this summer JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School!

Clearly, ‘tis the season, for it is once again proofs’ day! This time, I am working on proofs for a short chapter, ‘Classical Cavafy and Cavafy among the Classicists’, for the forthcoming Bloomsbury volume, ‘Cavafy as World Literature’! Due out at the end of this year.

Here’s our brilliant 🤩 team of tutors for this year’s JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School! We’re looking forward to a brilliant week!

Lovely to get my author copies of the Alaudae translation cooked up by Michael Lombardi-Nash. I hadn’t read my translation (of Issue 7) since I sent it off in 2021, so it was delightful to revisit it this morning!

We’ve redesigned the JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School Summer School website! We’re really proud of the way it looks, so please go and have a browse! It’s optimised for laptop/desktop/tablet but is accessible on mobile …. it just doesn’t look as good! Give us a click! durhamglss.org

Lovely to receive my author copies of CP 120.3, containing my recent article on the Carmina Priapea, obscenity and space!

Joe already circulated this, but from us too, thank you for this thoughtful reflection on some themes in EDI and Latin teaching. cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/07/…

Back in Durham for my talk this afternoon Durham Classics and Ancient History , titled ‘When Sappho Met Lydia’. It’s a reading of the Lydia through the lenses of both Sapphic intertextuality (philologically understood) and through Sapphic desire (via Sedgwick), in time for #LGBTHistoryMonth.

Lovely to receive my contributor copies of this smart new volume on Cavafy as World Literature. I have a short chapter about the uses to which Classicists put Cavafy in their scholarship.

Dr Cora Beth Fraser (Dr Cora Beth Fraser) has posted about the JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School … Don’t miss out on a place - Registration closes on 20th May. Contact - [email protected] with any queries, or get in touch through our socials! wp.me/p8JYS2-3uO