Susanna Braund

Susanna Braund is a Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, specializing in Classical Studies. She delivered a series of guest lectures at Collège de France's Site Marcelin Berthelot in June 2014 under John Scheid's statutory chair on ancient Roman institutions, focusing on the reception of Latin poets in European literature.

Her research centers on the transmission and adaptation of Latin poetry across European cultural history, with particular expertise in Virgil's Aeneid and Bucolics, Senecan tragedy, and translation practices from the Renaissance to modern opera. She examines metrical choices in translations, partial translation phenomena, and classical influences on dramatists like Garnier and Dryden, notably analyzing Stravinsky's Œdipe Roi Latin libretto through a Senecan lens.

While no specific awards, advising roles, or laboratory affiliations are documented in the provided materials, her scholarly contributions highlight interdisciplinary connections between philology, literary theory, and performance studies within classical reception.