Susanna H. Morton Braund (born 6 February 1957) is a professor of Latin poetry and its reception at the University of British Columbia.^[1][2]

Education

Braund received her BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge in 1978, followed by a PhD in 1984 from the same institution.^[1]

Career

Braund held appointments at the University of Exeter, the University of Bristol, Royal Holloway, University of London, Yale University and Stanford University before taking up her current professorship.^[3][4]

Since 2007, Braund has held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair position in Latin Poetry and its Reception, which was renewed in 2014.^[1] Her research is on the translation history of Latin poetry.^[5]

Braund was elected as a Scholar in Residence at the Collège de France for June 2014.^[6][7]

In 2016, Braund was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship for the years 2016–2018,^[1] for a project on translations of Virgil's Aeneid, Georgics and Eclogues.^[8]

In 2018, Braund was elected as Corresponding Fellow to the Australian Academy of the Humanities.^[4]

Selected bibliography

Translations and editions

• Seneca, De Clementia: Edited with Text, Translation and Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009) ISBN 978-0-19-960780-8.
• Juvenal and Persius (Loeb Classical Library vol. 91) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2004) Parallel text Latin edition and English translation of both authors' works, with an introduction. ISBN 978-0-674-99612-0.
• Juvenal, Satires Book I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996). Text with an introduction and commentary. ISBN 978-1-316-52980-5.
• Lucan, Civil War: Translated with introduction and notes (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1992) Reissued as part of Oxford World's Classics.

Books and edited volumes

• Virgil and his Translators, ed. with Zara Martirosova Torlone (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018), ISBN 978-0-19-881081-0.
• Latin Literature (London and New York: Routledge 2002) ISBN 978-0-415-19518-8. Second edition: Understanding Latin Literature (London and New York: Routledge 2017) ISBN 978-1-138-64539-4).
• The Roman Satirists and their Masks (London: Bristol Classical Press/Duckworth 1996) ISBN 978-1-85399-139-4.
• Satire and Society in Ancient Rome (Exeter Studies in History 23), (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 1989) ISBN 978-0-85989-331-2.
• Beyond Anger: A Study of Juvenal’s Third Book of Satires (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1988) ISBN 978-0-521-35637-4.

Podcast appearances

• Entitled Opinions: 'Susanna Braund on Virgil's Aeneid'. 25 October 2005.