Professor
MA, D.Phil. (Oxford), MA (London)
Email: Andrew.Laird@warwick.ac.uk
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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 served on the Council of the Roman Society and has held research positions in Princeton, Cincinnati and Wisconsin-Madison in the US. He was Visiting Professor (Cátedra Extraordinaria Méndez Plancarte) in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2008. This year he is giving a curso de doctorado in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Salamanca in Spain, and he will be lecturing in Stanford University in for the 2012 Fall Quarter.

Teaching:

Undergraduate:

• Latin Language and Literature 
• Epic and Epyllion 
• Art and Death in Neronian Culture 
• Classical Views of Literature and the Visual Arts 
• The Origins of the Modern Novel
  

Postgraduate:

• Virgil, Latin elegy, poetry of Late Antiquity, humanist scholarship and commentary (PhD)
  
• Renaissance Latin epic and pastoral Poetry (MA)

Research:

Andrew Laird’s principal areas of research are in Latin poetry and prose narrative, but he also works on Roman literary biography, ancient criticism and ideas of fiction – particularly in relation to modern theory. His research on Latin extends to Renaissance Europe and Spanish America: he is translating Petrarch's Africa and much of his recent work highlights connections between Latin writing and indigenous knowledge in colonial Mexico. He is a contributor to the Oxford Classical Dictionary, Der neue Pauly and various Cambridge Companion volumes on classical and Renaissance literature.

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 Rhetoric of Roman Historiography, in: The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians, ed. Andrew Feldherr (Cambridge University Press 2010), 197–213
• Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro), in: Der Neue Pauly Supplemente 7. Die Rezeption der antiken Literatur. Kulturhistorisches Werklexicon ed C. Walde (Stuttgart: J B Metzler 2010), 1108-30
• The Reinvention of Virgil's Wheel: The poet and his work from Dante to Petrarch, in: Classical Literary Careers and their Reception ed. Philip Hardie and Helen Moore Cambridge University Press 2010), 138-59
• Reception, in: The Oxford Handbook to Roman Studies, ed. Alessandro Barchiesi and Walter Scheidel (Oxford: OUP, 2010)
• 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. Yasmin Haskell and J. Ruys (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2010), 169–199
• The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Virgil, native tradition and Latin poetry in colonial Mexico from Sahagún's Memoriales to Villierías' Guadalupe (1724), in A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition ed. Joseph Farrell and Michael C. J. Putnam (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 2010), 217-38
• The Cosmic Race and a heap of broken images: Mexico's classical past and the modern creole imagination, in Classics and National Cultures ed. Phiroze Vasunia and Susan Stephens (Oxford: OUP 2010), 163-81
• Soltar las cadenas de las cosas: Las tradiciones clásicas de Latinoamérica, in: La influencia clásica en América Latina ed. Carla Bocchetti (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2010), 8-23
• El patrimonio mexicano y la ideología en la cultura clásica del siglo XVI, in: Actualidad de los clásicos. III Congreso Internacional de Filología y Tradición Clásicas. <<Vicentina Antuña>> in memoriam ed. Elina Miranda Cancela and Gustavo Herrera Díaz (La Habana: UH Editorial, Cuba 2010) 54-60.
• Migration und Ovids Exildichtung in der lateinishen Kultur Kolonialmexicos, in: 2000 Jahre Wiederkehr der Verbannung des Ovid: Exil und Literatur ed. Veronika Coroleu and Gerhard Petersmann (Horn/Salzburg: Berger 2011) 101-18
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Other books include

• Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power (Oxford: OUP, 1999)
• A Companion to the Prologue of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (Oxford: OUP 2001)
• Ancient Literary Criticism (Oxford: OUP, 2006)
  
• The Epic of America (London: Duckworth 2006)

Some forthcoming publications:

• The Role of Latin in the Early Modern World: Latin, linguistic identity and nationalism 1350-1800: Renaessanceforum 7. Edited with Carlo Caruso and Alejandro Coroleu (Aarhus and Copenhagen: Forum for Renaissance Studies 2011)
• Enlightenment, Atomism and the Sublime: The Jesuit Latinists in Clavigero's circle, in: Lucretius in the European Enlightenment ed. Thomas Ahnert, Hannah Dawson and Michael Lurie (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011-12)
• Aztec and Roman Gods in sixteenth-century Mexico: Classical learning in Sahagún's missionary ethnography, in: Altera Roma: Art and Empire from the Aztecs to New Spain ed. John Pohl (Los Angeles: UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology)