Jane Lightfoot


Jane Lucy Lightfoot is a Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of New College and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Professor Lightfoot has been a tutor at New College, Oxford since 2003. Prior to this, she held a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College from 1994 to 2000, and a Post Doctoral Fellowship at All Souls from 2000 to 2003.
Her research interests include most aspects of Greek literature, with her publications focusing primarily on Hellenistic and imperial literature. Her specialism is in the exploration of underrepresented classical texts, including mythography, ethnography, oracular literature, poetry and prose. Her current work is a critical interpretation of late antique astrological poetry.
Lightfoot was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018, a fellowship of leading academics elected for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences.

Selected publications