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William Fitzgerald is a Professor specializing in Poetry (ancient and modern) and music and literature, with research spanning Classics, Latin Literature, and English Literature. His work focuses on Neoclassical Aesthetics, Roman Comedy, and Augustan Poetry through textual analysis and historical contextualization.
His research explores the intersection of poetic forms and musical traditions across eras, with particular emphasis on Vergil, Ovid, Alexander Pope, and Gothic literature. Key themes include aesthetic reception of antiquity, power dynamics in Roman comedy, narrative cruelty in ancient novels, and rhetorical strategies of "weakness" in Latin poetry. He examines how classical tropes evolve through neoclassical reinterpretation and influence later literary movements.
Recent publications reveal a cohesive trajectory examining classical reception in neoclassical aesthetics, slavery in Roman theatrical contexts, and the poetics of inferiority. His scholarship bridges philological rigor with interdisciplinary approaches connecting literature, musicology, and social history.
Professor Fitzgerald has supervised 4 graduate students and led 6 significant research projects including:
- The Aesthetics of Neoclassicism: A Study in White (Leverhulme Trust, 2016-2018)
- The Sublime Princeps: Reverence and Resistance in Early Imperial Rome and the English Renaissance (2016-2019)
- Aesthetics and Class in the Ancient World (2011, with E. Hall)
- Variety in Roman Literature and Thought (AHRC, 2011)
- Visions of Variety in Roman Literature and Thought (2010-2011)
