Professor Anna Chahoud

Head of Department
Professor of Latin

I studied Classics in Bologna and Pisa, Italy, and worked in England before coming to Ireland in 1999. My research concentrates mainly on early Latin and the transmission of Latin texts. I have contributed to the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and I am a member of the editorial board of the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (2007).

Research interests

My research focuses on two main areas: Early Latin language and literature and the transmission of Latin texts from antiquity to the early modern period. I am especially interested in the interaction between literary and spoken language in the process of formation of genre-specific poetic diction in Roman Republican literature. My primary interest is in early Roman satire: my commentary on the fragments of Lucilius (in progress for CUP and UTET) investigates the relationships between hexametrical poetry and the comic register on the one hand and stylized prose on the other. My concern with the survival of fragmentary Latin texts has led me to study the grammatical tradition of Late Antiquity, the medieval transmission and the early-modern reception of Latin texts. I am currently involved in projects for the study of Trinity College Latin manuscripts and for the promotion of neo-Latin studies, which have received Irish and European funding.

Selected publications

• ‘The Language of Roman Verse Satire’ in J. Clackson (ed.) Blackwell Companion to the Latin Language (forthcoming)
• (ed., with E. Dickey) Colloquial and Literary Latin (external) (Cambridge University Press 2010) ‘Idiom(s) and literariness in classical literary criticism’, in Colloquial and Literary Latin 42–64
• ‘Romani ueteres atque urbani sales: a note on Cic. De Orat. 2.272 and Lucil. 173M’ in Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts: Studies in honour of A J. Woodman, eds. C. Kraus, J. Marincola and C. Pelling (Oxford 2010) 86–97
• ‘Alterità linguistica, latinitas e ideologia tra Lucilio e Cicerone’, in Plurilinguismo letterario, ed. R. Oniga (Cosenza 2008) 38–56.
• ‘Antiquity and authority in Nonius Marcellus’, in Texts and Culture in Late Antiquity: Inheritance, Authority, and Change, ed. D. Scourfield (Classical Press of Wales 2007) 69–96.
• Various entries on 17th and 18th-century British classicists in New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (external) (Oxford University Press 2004-6)
• ‘The Roman satirist speaks Greek’, Classics Ireland 11 (2004) 1–46
• C. Lucilii Reliquiarum Concordantiae (Hildesheim 1998)

Teaching

I teach mostly Latin language and literature from the early Republican to the early imperial period (comedy, satire, Virgilian epic, historical and philosophical prose), with an emphasis on the relationship between linguistic register and literary genre. Final-year undergraduate and MPhil courses include Greco-roman rhetoric and poetics; transmission and textual criticism; classical education and European identity. I also contribute to the MPhil programmes in Medieval Language, Literature and Culture, in European Studies, in Comparative Literature and in Literary Translation.

Professor Chahoud on the TCD Research Support System

Contact Details

Department of Classics,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2.

Telephone: 00 353 1 8961984
Fax: 00 353 1 6710862
Email: chahouda@tcd.ie