Anna Chahoud is Professor of

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

in the Department of Classics at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

, and is known for her research on Latin literature and linguistics.

Education

Anna Chahoud holds a BA in

classics Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

from the

University of Bologna The University of Bologna (, abbreviated Unibo) is a Public university, public research university in Bologna, Italy. Teaching began around 1088, with the university becoming organised as guilds of students () by the late 12th century. It is the ...

(1991) and a

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

in Greek and Latin

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

from the

University of Pisa The University of Pisa (, UniPi) is a public university, public research university in Pisa, Italy. Founded in 1343, it is one of the oldest universities in Europe. Together with Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Sant'Anna School of Advanced S ...

(1996).

Career

Chahoud has worked at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford, and became University College, ...

(1997–1998), the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to ...

(1998–1999) and

University College Dublin University College Dublin (), commonly referred to as UCD, is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 38,417 students, it is Ireland's largest ...

. She joined

in 2006. As well as holding the Chair of Latin, she is a Fellow and Public Orator at Trinity College Dublin, where she also convenes the 'Manuscript, Book, and Print Cultures' research theme. Her other academic appointments include positions as an invited Visiting Scholar at

All Souls College, Oxford All Souls College (official name: The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full me ...

(2008) and visiting scientist at the

Scuola Normale Superiore The Scuola Normale Superiore (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. Together with the University of Pi ...

, Pisa (2012); she is a member of the international Ancient European Languages And Writings research group and is a Consulting Editor for the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Chahoud's research interests include fragmentary early Latin texts (especially satire), the transmission of these texts from antiquity to the early modern period, Latin linguistic registers, and the interaction between literary and spoken language. Her most important publications in these fields include ''C. Lucili Reliquiarum concordantiae'' (1998) and ''Colloquial and Literary Latin'' (co-edited with

Eleanor Dickey Eleanor Dickey (born 9 April 1967) is an American classicist, linguist, and academic, who specialises in the history of the Latin and Greek languages. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Classics at the University of Reading in England. Early ...

); as of 2019, she is working on a new edition and the first English-language commentary of Lucilius' satires and on a Loeb Classical Library collection of fragmentary satire, political invective and popular verse.

Selected publications

Books

* Chahoud, Anna ''C. Lucilii Reliquiarum Concordantiae'', Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, Olms-Weidmann, 1998

Edited books

* Chahoud, Anna ''Fabellae Dublinenses Revisited and Other Essays In honour of M. L. Colker (Hermathena Special Issue 2017)'', Dublin, 2017 * Chahoud, Anna (with Dickey, E.)
Colloquial and Literary Latin
', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010

Articles and book chapters

* Chahoud, Anna "Lucilius on Latin spelling, grammar and usage" in Giuseppe Pezzini and Barney Taylor (eds), ''Nature and Language in the Classical Roman World'', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 46–78 * Chahoud, Anna "Verbal Mosaics: Speech Patterns and Generic Stylisation in Lucilius" in B.W. Breed, Rex Wallace, and E. Keitel (eds.) ''Our Lucilius: Satire in Second Century Rome'', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 132–161 * Chahoud, Anna
Quid ago? Quid facimus? 'Deliberative' Indicative Questions from Early to Late Latin
in J. N. Adams and Nigel Vincent (eds), ''Early and Late Latin: Continuity and Change'', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 217–245 * Chahoud, Anna "Varro's Latin and Varro on Latin" in R. Ferri and A. Zago (eds.), ''The Latin of the Grammarians: Reflections about Language in the Roman World'', Pisa, 2016, pp. 15–31 * Chahoud, Anna "Lucilio: L'invenzione di un'identità" in Luca Canali (ed), ''Altri classici'', 2013, pp. 1–14 * Chahoud, Anna
The Language of Roman Verse Satire
in James Clackson (ed), ''Blackwell Companion to the Latin Language'', Malden, MA and Oxford, Blackwell, 2011 * Chahoud, Anna "Idiom(s) and literariness in classical literary criticism" in Eleanor Dickey and Anna Chahoud (eds), ''Colloquial and Literary Latin'', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 42–64 * Chahoud, Anna "Antiquity and Authority in Nonius Marcellus" in David Scourfield (ed), ''Texts and Culture in Late Antiquity: Inheritance, Authority, and Change'', Classical Press of Wales, 2007, pp. 69–96 * Chahoud, Anna "The Roman satirist speaks Greek", ''Classics Ireland'', 11, 2004, p. 1–46

References

External links

Ancient European Languages And Writings

Anna Chadoud's works on Google Scholar
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