Professor Andrew Laird

Andrew Laird was educated at King's College, London, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was elected to a Fellowship by Examination. He was Professor of Classical Literature at Warwick University before his current appointment as John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University, Rhode Island.

'Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power' (Oxford: OUP 1999), Andrew Laird's first book, reconciles ancient poetics with modern narrative theory and reflects his abiding interest in the conjunction of language, ideology and representation, but he has also published on many individual Greek and Roman authors, including Plato, Catullus, Virgil, Horace and Apuleius. Humanism, the history of early modern scholarship, education and literature conveyed in Latin, has been the focus of Andrew Laird's further work on colonial Spanish America. His most recent monograph, 'Aztec Latin' (New York: OUP 2024), which calls attention to the achievements of indigenous scholars in post-conquest Mexico, has received the Miriam Usher Chrisman Prize for History and the Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies.