Victoria Moul

Victoria Moul is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at King's College London. She holds a PhD from Cambridge on Ben Jonson's classical intertextuality and has previously taught at Oxford (Queen's College) and Cambridge University. Her academic career includes a Junior Research Fellowship (2006-9) and a Lectureship in Latin Literature (2009-10).

Research Focus: Specializes in Latin literature, neo-Latin studies, and the classical tradition in early modern English literature. Key projects involve classical reception in English manuscript verse miscellanies (1550-1700), Latin translations by poets like George Herbert, and the interaction between Latin and English poetry during the Renaissance.

Publications: Authored Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition (CUP 2010, pbk 2016), and co-edited The Cambridge Guide to Neo-Latin Literature (2016). Her recent work includes translations of George Herbert's Latin poetry (Penguin 2015) and monograph The Forgotten Muse: Latin and English Poetry in Britain, 1550-1700 (under contract with CUP).

Awards & Grants: Recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2017-2019), funding her research on Jesuit scriptural commentary in the New World and Latin poetry in English manuscripts.