Simon Goldhill

Simon Goldhill is currently Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the British Academy. He has just finished his time as director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge (CRASSH). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of King’s College, Cambridge. Goldhill’s research interests include: Greek tragedy, Greek culture, literary theory, later Greek literature, and reception. His latest book is A Very Queer Family: Sex, Religion and the Bensons in Victorian Britain (2016). He is the author of many influential monographs including Foucault’s Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality (1995), The Temple of Jerusalem (2005), Who Needs Greek? (2002), and Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia (1985). Goldhill directed the European Research Council–funded project “The Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture.”