Dr. Gail Trimble

Biography

Gail Trimble is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, specializing in Latin literature. She completed her DPhil at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 2010, and has had a distinguished career as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, before returning to Oxford to take on a Tutorial Fellowship at Trinity College. Her research focuses on Latin poetry, with particular interests in authors such as Catullus, Ovid, Virgil, and Horace. Trimble’s work addresses formal aspects of literary texts, exploring themes of voice, subjectivity, intertextuality, genre, and the ways these texts negotiate relationships with readers and their realities. She has published a commentary on Catullus 64 in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series and co-edited the volume 'Metalepsis: Ancient Texts, New Perspectives' with Sebastian Matzner, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. Trimble is also involved in supervising graduate students, particularly in the areas of Latin poetry reception and textual criticism, covering a range of topics from Ovid to Roman tragedy.

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