Appointment of Regius Professorship of Greek in the University of Oxford: 29 October 2026
What was announced
The King has approved the following appointment.
Key points, in the publisher's words
- The King has approved that Professor Laura Swift, Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Magdalen College, be appointed to the Regius Professorship of Greek at the University of Oxford in succession to Professor Gregory Hutchinson. The Regius Professorship of Greek was established by Henry VIII in 1541.
- Professor Swift took her BA in Literae Humaniores at Magdalen College, Oxford in 2002, followed by an MSt and DPhil at Oxford, completing her doctorate in 2007. She subsequently held academic and research positions at Oxford and University College London before taking up a Lectureship at the Open University in 2012. She returned to Oxford in 2022 as Tutorial Fellow in Classics at Magdalen College and Associate Professor of Greek in the Faculty of Classics, and was awarded the title of Professor
- Professor Swift is a literary critic of ancient Greece, specialising in Greek tragedy and lyric poetry. Her doctoral thesis received the Hellenic Foundation Thesis Prize and her subsequent research has received international recognition including an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship and a Philip Leverhulme Prize. She is known particularly for her work on the relationship between Greek tragedy and other forms of choral poetry, including her book The Hidden Chorus, and for her work on
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