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Professor
MA, D.Phil. (Oxford), MA (London)
Andrew Laird has a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship and will be on leave from October 2008 until October 2011.
Email: Andrew.Laird@warwick.ac.uk
Detailed homepage.
Personal Profile:
Before moving to Warwick, Andrew Laird was Lecturer in Latin at Newcastle University and Fellow by Examination in Classical Literature at Magdalen College Oxford. He has held research positions in Princeton, Cincinnati and Wisconsin-Madison in the US, and this autumn he is Visiting Professor (Cátedra Extraordinaria Méndez Plancarte) in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Teaching:
Undergraduate:
Postgraduate:
- Virgil, Latin elegy, poetry of Late Antiquity (PhD)
- Renaissance Latin epic and pastoral Poetry (MA)
Research:
Andrew Laird’s principal areas of research are in Roman poetry and prose narrative, but he also works on ancient criticism, literary biography, and ideas of fiction – particularly in relation to modern theory. His research on Latin extends to Renaissance Europe and Spanish America: The Epic of America (London 2006) highlights connections between Latin writing and indigenous knowledge in colonial Mexico. Other books include Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power (Oxford 1999) , A Companion to the Prologue of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (Oxford, 2001).
He is on the editorial board of Nova Tellus and the advisory board of Brepols Neo-Latin Texts and Monographs. He held Visiting Fellowships at Cincinnati and Madison-Winsconsin in 2001-2, 2003-4.
For further information see Andrew Laird’s research profile.
Recent publications:
- Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600, edited with Carlo Caruso (London: Duckworth, 2009)
- The Epic of America: An Introduction to Rafael Landívar and the Rusticatio Mexicana (Duckworth 2006)
- 'The Rhetoric of Roman Historiography', The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians, ed. Andrew Feldherr (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 197–213
- 'Approaching Rhetoric and Style in Greek and Latin fiction', The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel, ed. Tim Whitmarsh (Cambridge University Press 2008), 201-17
- 'Ars Poetica', in The Cambridge Companion to Horace (Cambridge University Press 2006) 132-43
- 'Metaphor and the riddle of representation in the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri', in Ancient Narrative Supplementum 4 2005: 225-244
- 'The True Nature of the Satyricon', in Ancient Narrative Supplementum 8 2007: 151-168
- 'Fiction, philosophy and logical closure' in Classical Constructions: Papers in Memory of Don Fowler (Oxford University Press 2007) 281-309
- 'Latin America' in The Blackwell Companion to the Classical Tradition, ed. Craig Kallendorf (Blackwell 2006)
- 'Renaissance Emblems and Aztec Glyphs: Italian humanism and Mexico 1520-1590', Studi Umanistici Piceni: Atti Dei Congressi 26 2006: 219-226
- ‘The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Birth of Latin Epic: Bernardo Ceinos de Riofrío’s Centonicum Virgilianum Monimentum ’ in Mexico 1680: Cultural and Intellectual Life in the Barroco Indias ed. Jean Andrews and Alejandro Coroleu (Bristol University Press: HiPLAM, 2007) 199-220
Other books include
Some forthcoming publications:
- ‘Latin in Cuauhtémoc’s Shadow: Humanism and the politics of language in Mexico after the conquest’, in: Latin and Alterity in the Early Modern Period, ed. Y. Haskell and J. Ruys, (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009), 169–199
- ‘Reception’, in: The Oxford Handbook to Roman Studies, ed. Alessandro Barchiesi and Walter Scheidel (Oxford: OUP, 2010)
- ‘The Reinvention of Virgil’s Wheel: The poet from Dante to Petrarch’s Africa,’ in: Literary Careers: Classical Models and their Receptions ed. P.R. Hardie and H. Moore (Cambridge: CUP, 2010)
