Prof. Dr. Gavin Kelly

• 1996 BA in Classics, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
• 1998 MPhil in griechischer und/oder römischer Geschichte, Magdalen College, Oxford
• 2002 DPhil in Classics, Magdalen College, Oxford
• 2000-2004 Forschungsstipendiat, Peterhouse, Cambridge
• 2004-2005 Forschungsstipendiat, Universität von Manchester
• 2005-2016 Lector, Senior Lecturer, Reader in Lateinischer Literatur, Universität Edinburgh
• 2016- Professor für lateinische Literatur und römische Geschichte, Universität Edinburgh

• 1996 Chancellor's Medal for Proficiency in Classical Learning, Hallam Prize, Schuldham Plate, Cambridge
• 1996-2000 HRB/AHRB-Stipendien für Master- und Doktoratsstudium
• 2010-2011 Stipendium, National Humanities Center
• 2013-2014 Mid-Career-Stipendium der Britischen Akademie
• 2014 Gaststipendium, All Souls College, Oxford
• 2014-2015 American Council of Learned Societies-Stipendium
• 2014-2016 PI BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant 'Prolegomena to Sidonius Apollinaris'
• 2014-2017 PI Leverhulme International Network 'Sidonius Apollinaris for the 21st Century'
• 2015-2016 Alexander von Humboldt-Stipendium, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• 2020-2021 DFG-Stipendium, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
• 2021 Gastprofessur, Università degli studi di Pisa

a) Monographien

• Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian (Cambridge, 2008).
• The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, jointly edited with Joop van Waarden (Edinburgh, 2020)
• New Approaches to Sidonius Apollinaris, jointly edited with Joop van Waarden (Peeters, 2013)
• Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity, jointly edited with Lucy Grig (Oxford UP: New York, 2012)

b) Aufsätze, Buchkapitel etc.

•  ‘Philological and historical notes on Ammianus Marcellinus’, in N.E. Lenski, R.D. Rees, and O. van Nijf (eds) From East to West in Late Antiquity: Essays in honour of Jan Willem Drijvers (Bari, in press 2024) [6000 words].
•  ‘Editorial note’, in Alan Cameron, Historical Studies in Late Roman Art and Archaeology (Leuven, in press 2023), xiii-xv. [I also prepared this volume for the press]
• ‘Ammianus Marcellinus, Speeches, and Rhetoric’, in L. Van Hoof and M. Conterno (eds), Rhetoric and Historiography: Exploring, Transgressing and Policing Generic Boundaries in Late Antiquity (Leuven, in press 2023), 181-202.
• ‘Accursius’ Ammianus Marcellinus (1533): the editio princeps of books 27-31’, in S. Rocchi and S. Andronio (eds) Mariangelo Accursio tra l’Italia e l’Europa (Rome, in press 2023), 67-88.
• ‘Periodisations’, in R.K. Gibson and C.L. Whitton (eds), The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature (Cambridge, in press 2023), 79-157.
• ‘Why We Need a New Edition of Ammianus Marcellinus’, in M. Hanaghan and D. Woods (eds), Ammianus Marcellinus: From Soldier to Author (Leiden, 2023 [2022]), 19-58.
• ‘Titles and Paratexts in the Collection of Sidonius’ Poems’, in A. Bruzzone and A. Fo (eds) Metamorfosi del classico in età romanobarbarica (Florence, 2021 [2022]), 77-97.
•  ‘Rutilius Namatianus, Melania the Younger, and the Monks of Capraria’, in W.V. Harris and A. Hunnell Chen (eds), Late Antique Studies in Memory of Alan Cameron (Leiden, 2021), 66-84.
•  ‘Sidonius as a Reader of Rutilius Namatianus, Invigilata Lucernis 42 (2020 [2021]), 151-161 [= R. Valenti and C. Longobardi (eds) Dissona nexio: Rotte del sapere tra storia e futuro per Marisa Squillante].
• ‘Introduction’, jointly with J.A. van Waarden, in G. Kelly and J. van Waarden, Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris (Edinburgh, 2020), 1-9.
•  ‘Dating the Works of Sidonius’, ibidem, 166-195.
• ‘Sidonius’ Prose Rhythm’, jointly with J.A. van Waarden, ibidem, 462-475.
• ‘Epilogue: Future Approaches to Sidonius’, jointly with J.A. van Waarden, ibidem, 730-736.
• ‘The Astrologer, the Eunuch, and the Emperor’, Revue des Études Tardo-antiques suppl. 5 (2018), 241-251 [= E. Amato, P. De Cicco and T. Moreau (eds), Canistrum ficis plenum. Hommages à Bertrand Lançon].
• ‘Ammianus, Valens, and Antioch’, in S.-P. Bergjan and S. Elm (eds), Antioch II: The Many Faces of Antioch: Intellectual Exchange and Religious Diversity (CE 350-450) (Tübingen, 2018), 147-172.
• ‘Edward Gibbon and Late Antique Literature’, in S. McGill and E. Watts (eds) Blackwell Companion to Late Antique Literature (Oxford, 2018), 611-626.
•  ‘From Martial to Juvenal: Epigrams 12.18’, in A. König and C.L. Whitton (eds), Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian: Literary Interactions AD 96-138 (Cambridge, 2018), 160-179.
• ‘The Hersfeldensis and the Fuldensis of Ammianus Marcellinus: A Reconsideration’, jointly with J.A. Stover, Cambridge Classical Journal 62 (2016), 108-129.
• ‘Claudian’s Last Panegyric and Imperial Visits to Rome’, Classical Quarterly 66 (2016), 336-357.
• ‘The First Book of Symmachus’ Letters as an Independent Collection’, in P.F. Moretti, R. Ricci, and C. Torre (eds) Culture and Literature in Latin Late Antiquity. Continuities and Discontinuities (Brepols: Turnhout, 2015 [2016]), 197-220.
• ‘Ammianus’ Greek Accent’, Talanta 45 (2013 [in fact 2015]), 67-79 [special issue edited by M.-P. García Ruiz and A. Quiroga Puertas (eds), Linguistic and Cultural Alterity in the Roman Empire].
• ‘The Political Crisis of AD 375/376’, Chiron 43 (2013), 357-409.
• ‘Pliny and Symmachus’, Arethusa 46.2 (2013), 261-287 [special issue edited by B. Gibson and R. Rees, Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity].
• ‘Sidonius and Claudian’, in J. van Waarden and G. Kelly, New Approaches to Sidonius Apollinaris (Leuven, 2013), 171-191.
•  ‘Introduction: from Rome to Constantinople’, jointly with L. Grig, in L. Grig and G. Kelly, Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity (New York, 2012), 3-30.
• ‘Claudian and Constantinople’, ibidem, 241-65.
•  ‘Ammianus Marcellinus’, Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classical Studies (Oxford University Press: New York, 2011, revised and updated 2015, new revision to be completed 2023) [Online Bibliography, 11,500 words].
•  ‘The Roman World of Festus’ Breviarium’, in C. Kelly, R. Flower, and M.S. Williams (eds), Unclassical Traditions: Alternatives to the Classical Past in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2010), 72-89.
• ‘Ammianus Marcellinus: Tacitus’ Heir and Gibbon’s Guide’, in A. Feldherr (ed.), Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians (Cambridge UP, 2009), 348-361.
• ‘Adrien de Valois and the Chapter Headings in Ammianus Marcellinus’, Classical Philology 104 (2009), 233-242.
•  ‘The Sphragis and Closure of the Res Gestae’, in J. den Boeft, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler (eds), Ammianus after Julian: The Reign of Valentinian and Valens in Books 26-31 of the Res Gestae (Leiden, 2007), 219-241.
• ‘To Forge Their Tongues to Grander Styles: Ammianus’ Epilogue’, in J. Marincola (ed.), A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography (Oxford, 2007), 474-480 [A much shorter, earlier version of the above].
• ‘Constantius II, Julian, and the Example of Marcus Aurelius: Ammianus Marcellinus XXI, 16, 11-12’, Latomus 64 (2005), 409-416.
• ‘Ammianus and the Great Tsunami’, Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004), 141-167.
• ‘The New Rome and the Old: Ammianus Marcellinus’ Silences on Constantinople’, Classical Quarterly 53 (2003), 588-607.