Journals Board
OUR BOARDS
The Journals Board, chaired by Professor Catharine Edwards, sets editorial policy for the CA’s journals – Classical Quarterly, Classical Review, Greece & Rome and the Journal of Classics Teaching.
CHAIR: Professor Catharine Edwards
Catharine Edwards teaches Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck where she been Professor since 2006. A Fellow of the British Academy, she is the author of numerous works on Roman cultural history and on classical reception in the nineteenth century. Her recent works include an edition of selected letters of Seneca (2019) for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series and a number of articles on aspects of Seneca’s Stoicism. She is currently writing a book about Cicero. President of the Roman Society from 2015-18, she is currently one of the society’s Vice Presidents and has served on the editorial boards of JRS and CRJ.
| Chair of Council ex officio | Prof. Judith Mossman (Emerita, University of Coventry) |
| Hon. Secretary ex officio | Dr Alex McAuley (Cardiff University) |
| Treasurer ex officio | Kim Taylor |
Members appointed by Council
PROFESSOR ATHANASSIOS VERGADOS
Athanassios Vergados teaches at Newcastle University. He obtained his first degree in Classical Philology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and his MA and PhD in Classics from the University of Virginia. Before coming to the UK he held teaching and research positions in the US (Franklin & Marshall College and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville) and in Germany (Heidelberg). Greek poetry (especially hymnic and didactic) and Greco-Roman etymology are among his main research interests. He has published a Commentary on the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (De Gruyter 2013) and, more recently, a monograph on Hesiod’s Verbal Craft: Studies in Hesiod’s Conception of Language and its Ancient Reception (OUP 2020), as well as numerous papers on various aspects of Greek literature.
DR DANIEL ANDERSON (Coventry University)
DR ALISON JOHN (University of Oxford)
DR BOBBY XINYUE (King’s College London)
| To retire 2025 | Prof. Athanassios Vergados (Newcastle University) |
| To retire 2028 | Dr Daniel Anderson (Coventry University) |
| To retire 2028 | Dr Alison John (University of Oxford) |
| To retire 2028 | Dr Bobby Xinyue (King’s College London) |
Invited to attend
| Publishers | Representatives of Cambridge University Press |
| Editors | Dr John Taylor (University of Manchester) New Surveys |
| Dr Phillip Horky (University of Durham) New Surveys | |
| Prof. Ivana Petrovic (University of Virginia) Greece & Rome | |
| Prof. Andrej Petrovic (University of Virginia) Greece & Rome | |
| Dr Blanka Misic (University of Vienna) Classical Review | |
| Prof. Gesine Manuwald (University College, London) Classical Review | |
| Dr Greta Hawes (Australian National University) Classical Review | |
| Prof. Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol) Classical Quarterly | |
| Prof. Bruce Gibson (University of Liverpool) Classical Quarterly | |
| Prof. Costas Panayotakis (University of Glasgow) Classical Quarterly | |
| Dr Marco Perale (University of Liverpool) Classical Quarterly | |
| Prof. Susan Deacy (Associate Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies) Journal of Classics Teaching |