Jane Lightfoot

Jane Lucy Lightfoot FBA is a Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of New College and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Professor Lightfoot has been a tutor at New College, Oxford since 2003.[1] Prior to this, she held a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College from 1994 to 2000, and a Post Doctoral Fellowship at All Souls from 2000 to 2003.[2]

Her research interests include most aspects of Greek literature, with her publications focusing primarily on Hellenistic and imperial literature.[1] Her specialism is in the exploration of underrepresented classical texts, including mythography, ethnography, oracular literature, poetry and prose.[3] Her current work is a critical interpretation of late antique astrological poetry.[1]

Lightfoot was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018, a fellowship of leading academics elected for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences.[4]

Selected publications
  • Parthenius of Nicaea (Oxford, 1999)
  • Lucian, On the Syrian Goddess (Oxford, 2003)
  • The Sibylline Oracles (Oxford, 2007)
  • A Hellenistic Collection (Cambridge, MA, 2009).
  • Dionysius Periegetes, Description of the Known World: With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford, 2014).

References
  1. "Jane Lightfoot | New College". www.new.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  2. "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  3. "Professor Jane Lightfoot | British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  4. "Professor Jane Lightfoot elected Fellow of the British Academy | Faculty of Classics". www.classics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
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