Catharine Edwards (historian)

Catharine Edwards
FBA
Born
Catharine Harmon Edwards

(1963-05-27) 27 May 1963 (age 61)
Academic background
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineAncient history
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Catharine Harmon Edwards FBA (born 27 May 1963) is a British ancient historian and academic. She is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a specialist in Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature, particularly Seneca the Younger.

Early life and education

Edwards was born on 27 May 1963 in Redruth, Cornwall, England.[1] She was educated at Clifton High School, a private school in Bristol.[1] She studied classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1985 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1990.[1][2] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Transgression and control: studies in ancient Roman immorality".[3]

Academic career

Edwards began her academic career as a junior research fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge from 1988 to 1989. She then moved to the University of Bristol where she was a lecturer from 1989. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 1997 and to reader in 1999.[1]

Edwards joined Birkbeck College, University of London in 2001 as a lecturer.[1] She has been Professor of Classics and Ancient History since 2006.[2]

Edwards researches Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature, particularly Seneca the Younger. She also researches the reception of Classical antiquity in later periods.[2]

Edwards is the presenter of the three-part BBC series Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome.[4] She has also contributed to BBC Radio 4's In Our Time series, on Cleopatra, Roman Britain, Virgil's Aeneid, Tacitus and the decadence of Rome, Pliny the Younger, The Augustan Age and Marcus Aurelieus.[2]

She served as president of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies from June 2015 to June 2018.[5] In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[6]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Edwards, Prof. Catharine Harmon, (born 27 May 1963), Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Birkbeck, University of London, since 2006". Who's Who 2023. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d Catharine Edwards. Archived 20 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine Birkbeck College. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  3. ^ Edwards, Catharine (1989). Transgression and control : studies in ancient Roman immorality. E-Thesis Online Service (Thesis). The British Library Board. doi:10.17863/CAM.19630. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  4. ^ Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome, BBC. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  5. ^ "About the Society: Officers". Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Archived from the original on 28 September 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Professor Catharine Edwards FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  7. ^ Shaw, Brent D. (October 1994), "The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome by Catharine Edwards", Book Reviews, Classical Philology, 89 (4): 391–394, doi:10.1086/367439, JSTOR 270611
  8. ^ Pearcy, Lee T. (18 January 1998), "Catharine Edwards, Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City", Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  9. ^ Talbert, Richard J. A. (March 2005), "Rome the Cosmopolis by Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf", The International History Review, 27 (1): 108–110, JSTOR 40110658
  10. ^ Burnett, Fred W. (January 2006), "Rome the Cosmopolis – Edited by Catharine Edwards and Greg Woolf", Religious Studies Review, 32 (1): 38–39, doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2006.00033_2.x
  11. ^ Trimble, Jennifer (9 August 2004), "Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf, Rome the Cosmopolis", Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  12. ^ Bartsch, Shadi (15 November 2007), "Dying to Make a Point", London Review of Books, 29 (22): 3–6
  13. ^ Corbeill, Anthony (2008), "Catharine Edwards, Death in Ancient Rome", The American Historical Review, 113 (5): 1590–1591, doi:10.1086/ahr.113.5.1590
  14. ^ Schrumpf, Stefan (28 December 2007), "Catharine Edwards, Death in Ancient Rome", Bryn Mawr Classical Review