Prof Roy Gibson

Research interests

Research Interests and M.A. / PhD Supervision Areas

I offer graduate supervision in late Republican and early imperial literary culture, with special emphasis on: 

• Late Republican, Augustan, and early Imperial Poetry.
• Ancient epistolography, especially the letters of Pliny the Younger.
• Classical Commentaries.

  Current research projects:

• Commentary on the Epistles of Pliny the Younger, Book  6 (CUP)
• The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Studies (CUP), co-edited with C.L. Whitton
• Man of High Empire: a Biography of Pliny the Younger (OUP)
• PI and Co-director (with Andrew Morrison): AHRC-funded "Ancient Letter Collections" Project