Latinist to join faculty
Denis Feeny, a Latin specialist, has been appointed
professor of of classics, as of July 1.
Feeney earned his 1974 BA and MAs in Latin (1975) and
Greek (1976) at the University of Aukland, New Zealand, and
his 1982 DPhil at Oxford University.
A junior fellow at Harvard University in 1982-83, he was
a college fellow at Cambridge from 1983 to 1985 and a
lecturer at the University of Edinburgh for the next three
years. He was a member of the faculty at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison for six years, first as assistant
professor (1988 to 1990), then as associate professor (1992
to 1993) and professor (1993 to 1996). From 1990 to 1992 he
was a professor at the University of Bristol. He has been a
fellow and tutor at Oxford for the past four years.
Feeny's publications include The Gods in Epic: Poets
and Critics of the Classical Tradition (1991, paperback
1993) and Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures,
Contexts and Beliefs (1998), as well as numerous
articles and reviews. He is coeditor with S. Hinds of the
Cambridge University Press series Roman Literature and
Its Contexts and editor of the Everyman paperback
Virgil: Aeneid (1998).
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