Eleanor Dickey

Eleanor Dickey (born April 9, 1967 in New Haven ) is an American classical philologist .

Life

She was educated at Bryn Mawr College and graduated in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts (AB) and a Master of Arts (MA). She then moved to England and studied Classics at Balliol College , Oxford. In 1991 she completed her studies with a Master of Philosophy (MPhil). Dickey received a Marshall Scholarship. She then did research at Merton College in Oxford under the supervision of Anna Morpurgo Davies and completed her PhD in Philosophy (DPhil) in 1994. Her doctoral thesis was titled Greek forms of address. A linguistic analysis of selected prose authors .

From 1995 to 1999 Dickey was Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Ottawa . She then moved to Columbia University . She was assistant professor from 1999 to 2005 and associate professor from 2005 to 2007. She was visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study for the academic year 1998/1999 and at the Center for Hellenic Studies for the academic year 2002/2003.

After returning to England, she was Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter between 2007 and 2013 . In 2013 she was appointed Professor of Classics at the University of Reading . In 2012 she received a small research grant from the British Academy from the Marc Fitch Fund. From 2013 to 2015 she held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.

In 2014 Dickey was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). Also in 2014 she was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea .

Fonts (selection)

• Greek forms of address. From Herodotus to Lucian . Oxford 1996, ISBN 978-0198150541 .
• Latin forms of address. From Plautus to Apuleius . Oxford 2002, ISBN 978-0199242870 .
• Ancient Greek scholarship. A guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnings to the Byzantine period . Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0195312928 .
• An Introduction to the Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose . Cambridge 2016, ISBN 978-0521184250 .

Web links

• reading.ac.uk