Having a lot of fun writing about Horace and Aristotle today… but it’s going in unexpected (entirely expected) directions…

🎉 Hearty congratulations to former Durham student Dr Joe Watson, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Warwick University. 📖 Dr Watson's Durham PhD thesis will be published soon with Cambridge University Press. 🤩 Very many congratulations to Dr Watson!

Now that the ink is dry, I’m delighted to announce that, from September, I will be embarking on a 36-month @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship for my project ‘Queer Appendages’, remaining at Warwick! (1/5)

My short article on LGBTQ+ teaching resources and UK education policy, “Beyond Gay History Month: Queering the Past with ‘Queering the Past(s)’”, is in this new issue of JCT, Open Access. You can find it here: tinyurl.com/2kxs9hdj 1/3

Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Journal of Classics Teaching Vol. 27, No. 53 (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess @susandeacy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social

Back in Durham today for a fun conference on ancient authorship and marginality. I’ll be talking about the Dirae and how to read marginalised poems with authorship, but no authors!

It is once again proofs day—this time for a piece, forthcoming in Mnemosyne, on the meaning of ‘incest’ at Rome. It’s also the first day of term and ‘move offices’ day; all in all a busy day.

I’m having what can only be described as a productive research day…

Lovely to receive my contributor copies of this smart new volume on Cavafy as World Literature. I have a short chapter about the uses to which Classicists put Cavafy in their scholarship.

The Journal of Roman Studies Vol. 115 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @theromansoc.bsky.social @darcytuttle.bsky.social @profyarrow.bsky.social

Delighted that my latest article, ‘Hell is Other Poets: Tibullus, Ovid and Statius in Queer Elysium’ is out in the Journal of Roman Studies: doi.org/10.1017/S007.... In it, I argue that the Underworld operates, for Latin poetics, as a multiply-accessible ‘shared space’ [1/3]

Excited to be back in Durham for my talk this afternoon @durhamclassics.bsky.social, titled ‘When Sappho Met Lydia’. It’s a reading of the Lydia through the lenses of both Sapphic intertextuality (philologically understood) and through Sapphic desire (via Sedgwick), in time for #LGBTHistoryMonth.

📣 Places on @jactdurham.bsky.social are filling up fast 📣 Join us in July at St John’s College, Durham University for a week of #Latin and/or #AncientGreek! New for 2026: Classical Civilisation - Women: The Reality Behind the Myth! Register online: www.durhamglss.org

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Welcome - The 32nd JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School will take place at St John's College, Durham University from 25th July - 1st August 2026

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Lovely to see this out (in FirstView): "Beyond gay history month: queering the past with ‘Queering the Past(s)’" (tinyurl.com/4vrskdw2), my new article in the Journal of Classics Teaching about using resources from queeringthepasts.com to provide LGBTQ+ education in [1/2]

Lovely to receive my author copies of CP 120.3, containing my recent article on the Carmina Priapea, obscenity and space!

Lovely to get my author copies of the Alaudae translation cooked up by Michael Lombardi-Nash. I hadn’t read my translation (of Issue 7) since I sent it off in 2021, so it was delightful to revisit it this morning!

A big thank-you to @joewatstein.bsky.social for pulling this together!

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Lovely to see this out in the world: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0.... My report of a workshop I organised at the 2024 CA on the intersection between EDI and Latin language teaching, out now in the @cucdbulletin.bsky.social Read for an overview of the discussions had, but also for a lot of 1/2

Lovely to see this out in the world: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0.... My report of a workshop I organised at the 2024 CA on the intersection between EDI and Latin language teaching, out now in the @cucdbulletin.bsky.social Read for an overview of the discussions had, but also for a lot of 1/2

New issue of Classical Philology Vol. 120, No. 3 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2025/... @chicagojournals.bsky.social

Very happy to see this out in the world!

Dr Joe Watson@joewatstein.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s publication day! My new article, ‘Down the Garden Path: Divinity, Space, and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea’ is out now in volume 120.3 of Classical Philology. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

It’s publication day! My new article, ‘Down the Garden Path: Divinity, Space, and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea’ is out now in volume 120.3 of Classical Philology. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Down the Garden Path: Divinity, Space, and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea | Classical Philology: Vol 120, No 3

Abstract This article argues that the Priapus of the Carmina Priapea is trapped—spatially and poetologically—by the domain over which he presides: lewd obscenity. I show how the CP’s garden becomes th...

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Clearly, ‘tis the season, for it is once again proofs’ day! This time, I am working on proofs for a short chapter, ‘Classical Cavafy and Cavafy among the Classicists’, for the forthcoming Bloomsbury volume, ‘Cavafy as World Literature’! Due out at the end of this year.

It is once again proofs day! This time for my piece on queering Latin love poetry in the Underworld, out in this year’s JRS. Hell is Other Poets: Tibullus, Ovid and Statius in Queer Elysium

Off to Warwick to talk about some nice(ish) things in Lucan! Thanks for the invitation @joewatstein.bsky.social 😊

Proofs day! Forthcoming in July in Classical Philology: 'Down the Gardem Path: Divinity, Space and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea'.

A nice little haul of discount philology from this weekend’s shopping trip:

Hello! My new article is now out in Arethusa: '(Re)Producing The Egyptian: Arboricultural Cultivation Of The Roman State In Lucan’s Civil War'. I consider the epic's tree imagery as metaphor for the Roman state, pointing to the protagonists' attempts at cultivation & propagation.

Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 2y ago

New issue Arethusa Vol. 57, No. 3 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/53371 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Visions of Egypt in Imperial Latin Literature @elainam42.bsky.social @julesadv.bsky.social @esthermeijer.bsky.social

After a wonderful weekend with @esthermeijer.bsky.social in London (seeing sites and enjoying theatre), I’m quite proud of my wide-ranging haul—some new, some second, third, fourth or fifth hand!

Join me & the rest of the team this summer in Durham for the 31st JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School! Who’s planning on attending? Please share widely 🙏 @joewatstein.bsky.social @nicholsone99.bsky.social @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social @workingclassicists.bsky.social

JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School @jactdurham.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’ve dotted the i’s & crossed the t’s which means we’re ready! 🚨 OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS 🚨 Head over to www.durhamglss.org to secure your place on the 31st @jactdurham.bsky.social

After a fairly heavy week, I’m very excited to be gifting myself with the new(ish) Kristen’s to enjoy over the next few weeks!

Had the rare experience yesterday of receiving wonderful peer reviews from reviewer 1 *and* reviewer 2 for a forthcoming piece! Apparently, my work is “stunning”, “stellar”, “exquisite” and “radical”. Words to be remembered when reviewer 2 returns to their usual tricks…