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Ian Calvert is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol specializing in Eighteenth Century Literature. His research focuses on the literary afterlives of classical texts from antiquity to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular interest in English translations of epic poetry. His notable work, 'Virgil's English Translators: Civil Wars Restoration' (2021), examines how translations of Virgil produced during the mid-seventeenth century reflect the political loyalties and personal responses of writers at that time to past traumas and their hopes for the nation's future. He has published articles on John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and other poet-translators in esteemed journals including the Review of English Studies and the International Journal of Classical Tradition. Currently, he is working on an edition of Pope's translation of Homer for Oxford University Press. In addition to his research, Calvert teaches various courses ranging from transformations and approaches to poetry in English literature to epic literature in Classical Studies, emphasizing the intertextuality and legacy of classical works in modern contexts.
Department of Physics research themes include Astrophysics, Materials and Devices, Particle Physics, and Quantum and Soft Matter.