Speaker Biography
Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London. He has written on a range of texts and periods, from antiquity to the modern era, and is interested in the comparative study of ancient literature. He is the author of The Gift of the Nile (2001), The Classics and Colonial India (2013), and Postclassicisms (2019; co-author). He is the editor of numerous books, including a recent volume on Classics and Race: A Historical Reader (2025; with Sarah Derbew and Daniel Orrells). He is also the general editor of the book series Ancients and Moderns, published by Bloomsbury.