Classics at St Anne's College

The new St Anne's Classics undergraduates are here and coming for their first meeting with tutors at 2.30 p.m. Our welfare assistant looks forward to assisting them in their studies.

We feel your pain. In less exalted regions of the football league, Exeter City secured a 93rd minute winner at Lincoln.

Prof. Leigh was the guest of a very full meeting of Hull Classical Association yesterday evening as he lectured on Aeneid 2. Thank you for all the excellent questions and for a really happy and stimulating time.

Miriam Kamil | Department of Classics Miriam Kamil earned her PhD from Harvard University in 2022 and taught at Bryn Mawr and Hamilton College before joining the faculty at Stanford. She has published several articles and book chapters re...

Wonderful to see that St Anne's Classics alumna, Miriam Kamil, is now Assistant Professor of Classics at Stanford University. We hope very much to have her visit us again in the near future.

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Many congratulations to our former Gradual Development Scholar, Dr Laura Loporcaro, who has been awarded the Conington Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford University for 2021-2025. Laura currently hold a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ghent.

Great to see a St Anne's alumna entering on a distinguished career and with a first book to her name.
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Some faces from Oscata, the very isolated home village of the great Latinist Antonio La Penna. This week Prof. Leigh was honoured to address a conference in nearby Bisaccia dedicated to Prof. La Penna's famous essay on the paradoxical portrait. Many thanks to all those who made this event possible.

The Darwin-Dohrn Stazione Zoologica and Museum in Naples contains this 1837 sketch by Darwin of the gradual separation of species of coral. To a Classicist it looks rather like a stemma illustrating the manuscript tradition of an ancient work. Lachmann's edition of Lucretius was published in 1850.

Prof. Leigh is a regular in the slow lane at Oxford University's Rosenblatt Pool. It was a surprise this morning to share the water with double Olympic champion Adam Peaty. This was about as close as he will come to seeing the serpents cutting across the sea towards Laocoon.

Poppit the dog has just had her first ever visit to the groomer. Feel free to reassure her that her beauty is undiminished.

Many thanks to Dr Emily Hayes for a wonderful supper last night for new friends and old. Pictured: Dr Katz, Alec Tiller, Maximus Ankrah, Prof. Leigh. Alec and Maximus are visiting St Anne's from Virginia Military Institute. Maximus got his name after his father saw a certain Russell Crowe movie.

In 2022 Mackenzie Austin came to St Anne's from Durham 6th Form Centre to read History. A great friend to the Classics School and a stalwart of the Classical Reception Reading Group, he has just taken a First and will be heading to Durham University for his Masters.

In October 2022 Elise Stringfellow came to St Anne's from St Olave's School in South London to study Classics and English. She has just graduated with a First and will be staying in Oxford for her Master of Studies in Classics. Next term Elise will also be playing the wife in Plautus' Menaechmi.

Three years ago Isabella Hickman came to St Anne's from King Edward VI School for Girls in Handsworth to study Ancient and Modern History. She leaves us with a very fine degree and will be staying in Oxford to work at St Andrew's Church. We salute her.

Three years ago, Lucy Miller came to St Anne's from Newlands Girls School in Maidenhead to read for a degree in Classics and English. She leaves us with a First and a quite astounding mark for her dissertation on Wycliffe's translation of the Book of Hebrews. We have treasured her.

@whitstillman.bsky.social was at the UPP cinema in Oxford last night for a showing of his 1990 masterpiece Metropolitan. Prof. Leigh confesses to having seen the film at least 5 times and was delighted to find himself in a packed house of Stillman devotees.

Four years ago, Tilly Jackson-Long came to St Anne's from Haberdashers' School for Girls, Elstree, to read for a degree in Classics. A fine and imaginative scholar, Tilly has also developed high-level skills as a lighting technician and recently started work at the Oxford Playhouse.

Four years ago, Charlie Chadwick came to St Anne's from Hulme Grammar School in Oldham to read for a degree in Classics. He leaves us with a First and a funded place at Lincoln College, Oxford, to read for a Masters in Ancient History. We salute him.

Three years ago Leif Findlay came to St Anne's from Brighton College to read for a degree in Classics and English. Unaffectedly erudite and intellectual, Leif leaves with a fine degree and plans for a Masters in Film Studies. We are so proud of him.

Three years ago, Eleanor McNeill came to St Anne's from Aldenham School to read for a degree in Classics and English. She leaves us with a First and the Passmore-Edwards prize for the best marks in her subject across the university. We could not be more delighted with her achievements.

St Anne's Classics alumna Ash Bond is now a very successful and much admired writer for children. We are so proud of her. Vol. 2 in her Peregrine Quinn series came out earlier this year.

Home - Barr's Hill School

Professor Leigh today visited Barr's Hill School, Coventry. Serving a deprived neighbourhood with many migrant and refugee pupils, Barr's Hill has been assisted by Classics for All to introduce Classical Civilisation and some Latin. Teachers and pupils were amazing.

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Nobody in the St Anne's Classics School did either. We hope that our friends in Biochemistry will support our petition to have Joe Root's late cut granted UNESCO world heritage status.

One last scene from the Classics School's leavers' drinks: Dr Emily Hayes, Dr Ed Bispham, Dr Holly Hunt, Dr Andy Reyes, Eve Harrington. That's four doctorates and a fifth very much on the way.

Junior Year Abroad students Elijah Park and Genevieve Mellott leave us for their Senior Year studies at Indiana University and Wellesley College. We will miss them very much.

Second year students Dom Haddon and Sophie Bassano appear to have been enjoying a summer without exams.

Followed by Prof. Crisp, Max Holmes, Maya Menton, Elise Withey, and Dr Gay.

Some scenes from our end of year leavers' drinks. First up Prof. Leigh, Dr Beretta, Eleanor McNeill, Leif Fielding, Tilly Jackson-Long, and Elise Stringfellow.

This was Professor Roger Crisp's final report reading before he takes up the post of Director of the Uehiro Institute for Practical Ethics. He has been a Fellow of St Anne's for 34 years and Professor Leigh's adored colleague for 28 years. We salute him.

Students coming for their termly report reading yesterday found a full house of Classics tutors waiting to greet them. Happily we only had very positive things to say to them. Poppit the dog is under the table, an essential member of the team.