Thomas J. Nelson,
Career Development Fellow in Ancient Greek, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, Giuseppe Pezzini,
Fellow and Tutor in Latin Language and Literature, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Stefano Rebeggiani,
Associate Professor of Classics, University of Southern California Thomas J. Nelson is a Career Development Fellow in Ancient Greek at St Hilda's College, Oxford. He has previously held research and lectureship positions in both Oxford and Cambridge, including a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. He has published widely on archaic, classical, and Hellenistic Greek literature and its Roman reception, with particular interests in early Greek intertextuality and Hellenistic poetry beyond Alexandria. He is the author of
Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry (2023) and co-editor (with Matthew Chaldekas) of
Hellenistic Aesthetics: Approaches and Frameworks (
BICS 67.2, Oxford 2024).
Giuseppe Pezzini is Tutor and Fellow in Latin at Corpus Christi College, Oxford which he joined in 2021, after five years of teaching in St Andrews (2016-2021), and research fellowships at Magdalen College Oxford (2013-2015) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2016). He worked as an assistant editor for the
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (completed in 2013), and has published especially on Latin language and literature, philosophy of language, and the theory of fiction, ancient and modern. He was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2019 and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2021.
Stefano Rebeggiani is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California. His main interests are in Roman literature and culture, especially epic and its relationship with the socio-political contexts of the Roman empire; the interactions of poetry and philosophical traditions; and the interplay of texts and monuments in Republican and Imperial Rome. He has written on Lucretius, Virgil, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, on the role of Greek works of art in Republican and Imperial monuments, and on the political significance of myth in Roman monumental contexts. His first monograph was published in 2018:
The Fragility of Power: Statius, Domitian, and the Politics of the Thebaid (Oxford).