Jane Lucy Lightfoot was born on 1969 and is a British classical scholar.
11 Facts About Jane Lightfoot
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Jane Lightfoot is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of New College, Oxford.
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Jane Lightfoot was educated at The Belvedere School, an all-girls private school.
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Jane Lightfoot then studied Classics at St John's College, Oxford, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1992: as per tradition, her BA was promoted to a Master of Arts degree in 1994.
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Jane Lightfoot completed her doctorate in 1995 with a thesis titled "Parthenius", for which she won the Conington Prize.
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Jane Lightfoot was awarded a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, in 1994, while she was a doctoral student at the University of Oxford, which she held until 2000.
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Jane Lightfoot has been a fellow and tutor in classics at New College, Oxford, since 2003.
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Jane Lightfoot's specialism is in the exploration of underrepresented classical texts, including mythography, ethnography, oracular literature, poetry and prose, and late antique astrological poetry.
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Jane Lightfoot's current project is an edition of the medical author Aretaeus of Cappadocia.
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Jane Lightfoot was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
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Jane Lightfoot is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.