Elaine Fantham studied at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Literae Humaniores and received a first class BA in 1954, converted to an MA in 1957.
12 Facts About Elaine Fantham
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Elaine Fantham completed her PhD at the University of Liverpool in 1965.
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Elaine Fantham taught in a secondary school for girls in St Andrews, Scotland, for seven years, and briefly at the University of St Andrews.
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Elaine Fantham moved to Indiana University Bloomington, and was a visiting lecturer for two years.
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Elaine Fantham was chair of the Department of Classics at Princeton University from 1989 to 1992.
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Elaine Fantham was active as a mentor across Canada and around the world.
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Between 1976 and 1979 Elaine Fantham was a member of the editorial committee of Phoenix, a journal of the Classical Association of Canada and did much to establish the international reputation of the journal.
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Elaine Fantham was vice-president of the Classical Association of Canada from 1982 to 1984, and vice-president and later president of the Canadian Society for the History of Rhetoric.
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From 2003 to 2004 Elaine Fantham was president of the American Philological Association and, from 2001 to 2006, she was honorary president of the Classical Association of Canada.
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On 5 January 2008 Elaine Fantham was given the Distinguished Service Award of the American Philological Association.
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In May 2015 Elaine Fantham was awarded the Classical Association of Canada's Award of Merit.
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Elaine Fantham was married to the mathematician Peter Fantham and had two children, Julia and Roy.