Giuseppe Pezzini

Giuseppe Pezzini is Senior Lecturer in Latin at the University of St Andrews, UK, a position he has held since 2016 after research fellowships at Magdalen College Oxford and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His academic journey includes a BA and MA in Classics from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.

His educational background:

• D.Phil., University of Oxford
• MA in Classics, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa
• BA in Classics, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa

Dr. Pezzini's research spans Roman republican literature, Latin linguistics, textual criticism, and digital humanities, with specialized focus on Roman comedy, ancient theory of language, and Tolkien studies. His work examines cultural integration in the Roman world, national identity construction in multi-ethnic societies, and the intersection of linguistic analysis with historical context through classical theatre and theory of fiction.

His publications reveal consistent engagement with Latin philology and classical reception, evolving from monographic work on Latin verb semantics (2015) to edited volumes on ancient linguistics (2019) and historical translations (2020), increasingly incorporating digital humanities methodologies and theoretical frameworks.

Scientific recognition includes:

• British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
• Loeb Library Foundation fellowship

As Senior Lecturer, Dr. Pezzini mentors students while leading externally funded research including his Terence commentary project. His current fellowship-supported work explores Pergamene-Roman cultural relationships and Lucretius DRN 4, demonstrating sustained investigation into Greco-Roman cultural synthesis and identity formation.