EDITOR
Dr Matthew Nicholls studied at Oxford University and is a senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, where he specializes in books, libraries, cities, and monuments of the Roman world. He directs Reading’s MA City of Rome course and is also producing a digital model of the entire ancient city.
Luke Houghton has taught Latin, Greek, and Classics at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge and at University College London, and has held visiting fellowships at the British School at Rome and the Warburg Institute in London. He has published articles, notes, and reviews on Roman poetry and its reception in later art and literature (principally in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance), and has edited books on the poet Horace and on Renaissance Latin poetry.
Ailsa Hunt is the Isaac Newton Research Fellow in Classics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Her primary research interests are in Roman religion. Ailsa also edits the annual magazine Tellus.
Peter Kruschwitz is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading. He is one of the leading experts in Latin linguistics, Roman metre, Latin verse inscriptions (the so-called Carmina Latina Epigraphica), Roman comedy (most notably Plautus and Terence), and the wall inscriptions of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Previously, Peter was a member of the research staff of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, before obtaining a prestigious two-year Emmy Noether scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He is a former Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Dunstan Lowe is a Lecturer in Latin Literature at the University of Kent. He has published on various topics in Roman culture and literature, especially Virgil, Ovid, and other poets of the Augustan period. He is also interested in how contemporary popular culture responds to classical antiquity, especially in newer media such as video games, and was co-editor (with Kim Shahabudin) of the book Classics for All: Re-Presenting Antiquity in Mass Cultural Media (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).
Annalisa Marzano is Professor of Ancient History in the Classics Department at the University of Reading, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her research focuses on Roman social and economic history and on Roman archaeology. She took part in many archaeological projects investigating Etruscan, Greek, and Romans sites in Italy, Libya, and Egypt. She is the author of two monographs, Roman Villas in Central Italy (Brill, 2007) and Harvesting the Sea: The Exploitation of Marine Resources in the Roman Mediterranean (OUP, 2013). She directs the University of Reading MA in Ancient Maritime Trade.
Susanne Turner is Curator of the Museum of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge. She has a special interest in classical sculpture and its viewers—male and female, rich and poor, ancient and modern.