13 Facts About Emily Gowers

Emily Gowers is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

Emily Gowers studied Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge and was awarded her BA in 1985 followed by her MA in 1990.

Emily Gowers was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1988 to 1991.

From 1991 to 1993, Emily Gowers was a lecturer in Latin at University College, London followed by a period as an honorary research fellow at the same institution.

In 1998 Emily Gowers became an affiliated lecturer for the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge and then moved to Princeton University in 2000 as a lecturer in the Department of Classics.

Emily Gowers returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in Classics in 2002 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2009.

Since 2013 Emily Gowers has been a Reader in Latin Literature.

In 2012 Emily Gowers was a Visiting Professor and Distinguished Webster Lecturer, Stanford University and in 2014 she was a Visiting Professor for the Spring Semester at Princeton University.

Emily Gowers delivered the 2013 Fowler Lecture on the subject "Maecenas and the Women".

Emily Gowers was the Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 2022, the eleventh woman to be invited to hold the position.

In 2018 Emily Gowers was appointed a Member of the Press Syndicate at Cambridge University Press, a role that contributes to the governance of the press.

Emily Gowers was elected a member of the Academy of Europe in 2013.

In 1988, Emily Gowers married Timothy Emily Gowers, a mathematician and Cambridge academic: they divorced in 2007.