Christina Kraus

Christina Shuttleworth Kraus is the Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin. After receiving her BA from Princeton and PhD from Harvard, she taught at NYU, UCL, and Oxford before coming to Yale in the summer of 2004. She has research interests in ancient historiography, Latin prose style, and the theory and practice of commentaries. She is also a member of the Program in Early Modern Studies.

She currently serves on the advisory boards of the projects, The Last Historians of Rome (AHRC funded, University of Edinburgh, 2024-   ); Imperialism in Roman Historical Writing (DFF funded project, 2023-  ); Brill’s Historiography of Rome and its Empire (monograph series); she is also on the general editorial board of the series Pseudepigrapha Latina (OUP). She was a co-founder of the Yale Initiative for the Study of Antiquity and the Premodern world (now ARCHAIA). She gave the 2009 Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College on the topic, “Tacitean polyphonies: The Agricola and its scholarly reception.” She is working on a project on early modern commentaries on Ennius’ Annales.