Susanna Braund
Susanna Braund, occasionally cited as Susanna Morton Braund, is a professor of Latin poetry and its reception at the University of British Columbia.Education
Braund received her BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge in 1978, followed by a PhD in 1984 from the same institution.Career
Braund held appointments at the University of Exeter, the University of Bristol, Royal Holloway, University of London, Yale University and Stanford University before taking up her current professorship.
Since 2007, Braund has held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair position in Latin Poetry and its Reception, which was renewed in 2014. Her research is on the translation history of Latin poetry.
Braund was elected as a Scholar in Residence at the Collège de France for June 2014.
In 2016, Braund was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship for the years 2016-2018, for a project on translations of Virgil's Aeneid, Georgics and Eclogues.
In 2018, Braund was elected as Corresponding Fellow to the Australian Academy of the Humanities.Selected bibliography
Translations and editions
- Seneca, De Clementia: Edited with Text, Translation and Commentary .
- Juvenal and Persius Parallel text Latin edition and English translation of both authors' works, with an introduction..
- Juvenal, Satires Book I. Text with an introduction and commentary..
- Lucan, Civil War: Translated with introduction and notes Reissued as part of Oxford World's Classics.
Books and edited volumes
- Virgil and his Translators, ed. with Zara Martirosova Torlone,.
- Latin Literature . Second edition: Understanding Latin Literature.
- The Roman Satirists and their Masks .
- Satire and Society in Ancient Rome, .
- Beyond Anger: A Study of Juvenal’s Third Book of Satires .
Podcast appearances
- Entitled Opinions: 'Susanna Braund on Virgil's Aeneid'. 25 October 2005.
