Professor Anna Chahoud

Chair of Latin (1870)

I studied Classics in Bologna (BA, MA) and Pisa (PhD), and taught at Reading and Durham before coming to Ireland in 1999. I have been in Trinity College since 2006. I was founder and convener of the Trinity Research Theme in Manuscript, Book and Print Cultures, which, after a decade, evolved into the Trinity Centre for the Book, currently directed by Dr Mark Faulkner. Under the auspices of the Irish Research Council my former Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Elena Spangenberg Yanes and I established the Latin Grammarians Forum, which has since grown into a large research network and thrives in its new home at Rome Sapienza. My largest public engagement initiative, ‘Living Latin’ (launched 2019), sought to promote new approaches to the study of the language in Ireland; my successor in the project lead, Dr Charlie Kerrigan, continues the mission of reaching out to people of all ages and backgrounds on the island and is responsible for the Latin Inscriptions of Ireland project. I am a Fellow of Trinity College (FTCD[2007]) and Public Orator of the University of Dublin.

Research Interests

My research focuses on Fragmentary Republican Latin, Latin linguistics, and the transmission of Latin texts from antiquity to the early modern period. I have long been engaged in the study of fragmentary Republican satire, working on a new edition of Lucilius, with the first English-language commentary of the fragments. I am also preparing an edition, with English translation, of fragmentary Latin satire and anonymous popular verse for the Loeb Classical Library, which explores the relationship between literary and colloquial, sub-literary and non-literary Latin. I am the author of a systematic study of the text of Lucilius (1998) and of papers on Republican Latin and on the grammatical tradition. I have co-edited, and contributed to, Colloquial and Literary Latin (with E. Dickey, Cambridge 2010) and Early Latin: Constructs, Diversity, Reception (with J. N. Adams and G. Pezzini, Cambridge 2023). I am consulting editor for the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and Representative for Ireland on the Internationale Thesaurus Kommission for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich.

Recent Publications

‘Ancient Textual Criticism (Latin)’, in W. de Melo and S. Scullion (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Latin Textual Criticism (Oxford University Press, in press, forthcoming 2026), 77-93.
‘Ennius’ Satires and the Registers of Personal Poetry’, in J. Hill and C. W. Marshall (eds), Ennius Beyond Epic(Cambridge University Press, 2025), 241-270
(with Monica Gale), The Augustan Space(Cambridge University Press 2024)
(with A. Campus, G. Lusini, S. Marchesini), Tempus Tacendi: Quando il silenzio comunica (Verona Alteritas Press 2023)
(with J. N. Adams and G. Pezzini), Early Latin: Constructs, Diversity, Reception(Cambridge University Press 2023)
‘“Early Latin” to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger, in Adams, Chahoud and Pezzini, 563–581
‘How “Early Latin” is Lucilius?’ in Adams, Chahoud and Pezzini (eds), 351–372
(with G. Pezzini) ‘Introduction: What is “Early Latin”?’, in Adams, Chahoud and Pezzini (eds) 1–14
(with M. Rosellini and E. Spangenberg Yanes, eds), Latin Grammarians Forum 2018-2019, Rationes Rerum 14 [2019] (2021)
‘The Language of Catullus’, in I. DuQuesnay and A. J. Woodman (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Catullus (Cambridge University Press, 2021), 116-142.

Teaching and Supervision

I teach Latin language and literature across the four years of our undergraduate courses. My research interests are especially prominent in my modules on Informal Latin, Early Latin, and Latin Comedy. I also contribute to the Classical Civilisation course, to the Classics MPhil programme, and I designed two Trinity Electives (A World to Discover, which I continue to convene, and ‘Latin: One Language, Many Cultures,’ which is now superbly delivered by Dr Charlie Kerrigan). I have supervised Master’s and PhD research in Latin language and literature of all periods. I especially welcome applications for projects in Republican Latin, fragmentary literature, Latin philology and linguistics, and the transmission and edition of Latin texts.