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Emily Gowers

Emily Joanna Gowers, FBA (née Thomas; born 27 September 1963) is a British classical scholar. She is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She is an expert on Horace, Augustan literature, and the history of food in the Roman world.[1]

Emily Gowers
FBA
Gowers in 2023
Born
Emily Joanna Thomas

(1963-09-27) 27 September 1963 (age 60)
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
ThesisThe representation of food in Roman literature
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineLatin literature
InstitutionsPrinceton University
University of Cambridge
Notable worksThe Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature

Early life and education edit

Gowers attended Oxford High School. She studied Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge and was awarded her BA in 1985 followed by her MA in 1990. Gowers remained in Cambridge for her PhD with a dissertation entitled The representation of food in Roman literature in 1990 for which she was awarded the Hare Prize. She was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1988 to 1991.[2]

Academic career edit

From 1991 to 1993, Gowers was a lecturer in Latin at University College, London followed by a period as an honorary research fellow at the same institution. In 1998 Gowers became an affiliated lecturer for the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge and then moved to Princeton University in 2000 as a lecturer in the Department of Classics. She returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in Classics in 2002 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2009. Since 2013 Gowers has been a Reader in Latin Literature.[3] Gowers was made Professor of Latin Literature in 2016.[4]

Gowers's work on the representation of food in Latin literature stemmed from her PhD research into the subject. Her 1993 publication, The Loaded Table, was awarded the Premio Langhe Ceretto (per la cultura del cibo) in 1994[5] and translated into Italian in 1996. This work drew together evidence from literature for Roman diet and food culture.[6]

Gowers's current work focuses primarily on the interpretation of Augustan literature, particularly the works of Horace.[1][7] She was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2014–16) for her project Maecenas: Transformations of an Augustan Patron.[8][9][10]

In 2012 Gowers was a Visiting Professor and Distinguished Webster Lecturer, Stanford University[11][12] and in 2014 she was a Visiting Professor for the Spring Semester at Princeton University.[13][14] She delivered the 2013 Fowler Lecture (Jesus College, Oxford) on the subject "Maecenas and the Women".[15] In 2013-14 Gowers was a guest speaker in the Classical Studies Department of McGill University.[16] Gowers was the Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 2022, the eleventh woman to be invited to hold the position.[17][18] The role was founded by Jane K. Sather, with the first Sather Professor established in 1914.[19] The position is annual, and involves teaching a course, delivering lectures on a specific topic, and publishing the lectures as a book.[19]

In 2018 Gowers was appointed a Member of the Press Syndicate at Cambridge University Press,[20] a role that contributes to the governance of the press.[21] Gowers regularly reviews books for the Times Literary Supplement.

Honours edit

Gowers was elected a member of the Academy of Europe in 2013.[3] In July 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[22]

Personal life edit

In 1988, Gowers married Timothy Gowers, a mathematician and Cambridge academic: they divorced in 2007. Together they have three children.[23]

Selected publications edit

  • Tasting the Roman World in K. C. Rudolph, ed., Taste and the Ancient Senses (Routledge, Abingdon/New York, 2018, pp. 90–103)[24]
  • Under the Influence: Maecenas and Bacchus in Georgics 2 in P. Hardie, ed., Augustan Poetry and the Irrational (Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 134–152)[25]
  • Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, or, what is the gender of Horace's Epodes? in P. Bather and C. Stocks, eds., Horace's Epodes: Contexts, Intertexts, and Reception (Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 103–130)[26]
  • Horace Satires Book I (Cambridge Greek and Latin Texts series, Cambridge University Press, 2012) (rev. BMCR 2012.11.11)
  • ed. with W. Fitzgerald Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond (Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement 31, 2007)
  • Fragments of Autobiography in Horace Satires I (Classical Antiquity 22.1, 2003, pp. 55–91)
  • The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature (Oxford University Press, 1993) (paperback 1997, translated into Italian in 1996 as La pazza tavola, Società editrice internazionale di Torino)[27]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Professor Emily Gowers — Faculty of Classics". www.classics.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  2. ^ Hoffmann, Ilire Hasani, Robert. "Academy of Europe: CV". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 16 August 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ a b Hoffmann, Ilire Hasani, Robert. "Academy of Europe: Gowers Emily". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 16 August 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Reports - Cambridge University Reporter 6429". www.admin.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  5. ^ Gowers, Emily (21 January 1993). The Loaded Table : Representations of Food in Roman Literature: Representations of Food in Roman Literature. Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780191591655.
  6. ^ Bober, Phyllis Pray (1993). "Review of: The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  7. ^ Sharland, Suzanne (2012). "Review of: Horace: Satires Book I. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  8. ^ "Dr Emily Gowers awarded Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship | StJohns". www.joh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  9. ^ "Grant winners - 27 February 2014". Times Higher Education (THE). 27 February 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  10. ^ "Leverhulme Awards Made (2013)" (PDF). Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  11. ^ "Stanford Classics Newsletter 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  12. ^ "Stanford Classics Newsletter 2012" (PDF). Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  13. ^ "Events Archive | Page 3 | Princeton Classics". classics.princeton.edu. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  14. ^ "Princeton Classics Newsletter 2014" (PDF). Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  15. ^ "Fowler Lectures | Jesus College, University of Oxford". www.jesus.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  16. ^ "Guest Speakers: 2005-present". Classical Studies. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  17. ^ "Professor Emily Gowers: Sather Lectures — Faculty of Classics". www.classics.cam.ac.uk. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  18. ^ "Past and Future Sather Professors | Department of Classics". www.classics.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  19. ^ a b "A Brief History of the Sather Professorship | Department of Classics". www.classics.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  20. ^ "Profiles of Members of the Press Syndicate: 2018" (PDF). Cambridge University Press. 2018.
  21. ^ "The Press Syndicate". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  22. ^ "New Fellows 2019" (PDF). The British Academy. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  23. ^ "Gowers, Sir (William) Timothy, (born 20 Nov. 1963), Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, since 1998; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, since 1995; Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor, since 2010 | WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO". Who's Who 2019. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2018. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U17733. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  24. ^ Rudolph, Kelli C. (2017). Taste and the Ancient Senses. Routledge. ISBN 9781317515401.
  25. ^ Hardie, Philip (2016). Augustan Poetry and the Irrational. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191037719.
  26. ^ Bather, Philippa; Stocks, Claire (2016). Horace's Epodes: Contexts, Intertexts, and Reception. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191063343.
  27. ^ Natunewicz, Chester F. (1995). "Review of The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature". The Classical World. 88 (3): 211. doi:10.2307/4351686. JSTOR 4351686.

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