Thomas Munro, ’19

Thomas is a fifth-year doctoral candidate on the Classical Philology track. His dissertation examines modern and contemporary poetry and drama from his native U.K. in light of the historic entanglement of classics and empire, and makes the case for reading certain English authors’ engagement with classical texts “postimperially.”

He also works on Irish and American classical receptions in the 20th and 21st centuries. Other research interests include Catullus and the neoterics, Ovid’s Heroides, and interdisciplinary approaches to Latin literature. 

Thomas received a first in his BA from Corpus Christi College, Oxford. While there, he wrote two theses, one on late modernist receptions of Homer and the other on the relationship of Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Cleitophon to Moschus’ Europa

For the 2023-24 academic year Thomas will be based at UCL on the Yale-UCL Collaborative Student Exchange Program. 

thomas.munro@yale.edu

Publications 

2023: Review of Mark Storey, Time and Antiquity in the American Empire: Roma Redux in Latomus 82.1, 199-201.

2024: “Catullus, Hesiod, and the Muses” in Classical Philology 119.4, 130-138.

Forthcoming: “Dissociative Moments in Late Republican and Augustan Poetry” in H. Baumann and L. Schmeider eds. The Senses on Edge: Overstrained and Fading Senses in Antiquity (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag), 64-83.