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Dr. Talitha Kearey is a Lecturer in Latin and Director of Research at the University of St Andrews' School of Classics. She holds a BA, MPhil, and PhD from the University of Cambridge (2009–2018). Her career includes positions at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge (2019–2023). She specializes in Latin literature from the 1st century BCE to late antiquity, focusing on reading cultures, authorial self-fashioning, and the intersection of ancient literary criticism with material book history.
Her research explores how ancient readers interpreted Virgil's biography and authorship, as seen in her forthcoming book The Poet at Work: Virgil, Authorship and the Poetics of Biography. Current projects include studies on Roman imperial poets, queer temporality in otium concepts, and collaborative practices in classical literature. She teaches modules on Horace, classical reception, and queer theory, and supervises postgraduate research in Latin literature and pastoral studies.
Kearey’s work bridges ancient and modern interpretive frameworks, with recent publications analyzing Fulgentius’ Aeneid commentary, Tacitus’ Dialogus, and Horatian acrostics. She collaborates on edited volumes such as Collaboration in Greek and Latin Literature, and engages with themes of textual transformation, anonymity, and ancient literary politics.
