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Professor Roy Gibson holds the position of Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, where he has been since September 2018. Previously, he served as Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester (1994–2018) and held roles at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, including Junior Research Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics (1992–94). He earned his BA (1987) and PhD (1993) in Classics from Cambridge. He is also a member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham.
His research focuses on Cicero’s Ad Familiares, Ovid, and Pliny the Younger. He co-directs the AHRC-funded Ancient Letter Collections project and offers school talks on ancient letters and letter collections, particularly Cicero and Pliny. Gibson has published extensively, including his acclaimed monograph Man of High Empire: the Life of Pliny the Younger (2020), and has been recognized as Chair of the Classical Association (UK) from 2013 to 2020.
He supervises PhD students on topics such as Ovid, Roman love elegy, Augustan poetry, Pliny the Younger, Cicero’s Ad Familiares, and Roman epistolography. His work bridges textual analysis, historical context, and philosophical inquiry, reflecting his deep engagement with ancient literature and its cultural significance.
