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Philomen Probert FBA (born 1973) is a British classicist and academic, specialising in linguistics. She is Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford.
Philomen Probert FBA | |
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Born | 1973 (age 50–51) |
Title | Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford St John's College, Oxford |
Thesis | Studies in ancient Greek accentuation (2000) |
Doctoral advisor | Anna Morpurgo Davies |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics Linguistics |
Institutions | Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford Wolfson College, Oxford |
From 1991 to 1995, Probert studied Literae Humaniores (i.e. classics) at Exeter College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.[1] Remaining at Exeter College, she undertook postgraduate studies in general linguistics and comparative philology, completing her Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in 1997.[1] She then moved to St John's College, Oxford, where she undertook research towards her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree under the supervision of Anna Morpurgo Davies.[1] She completed her DPhil in 2000 with a thesis titled "Studies in ancient Greek accentuation".[2][3] Her doctoral thesis won the 2002 Conington Prize from the Faculty of Classics.[4]
In 1999, Probert was appointed lecturer in Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford and elected a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.[1] In the 2006/2007 academic year, she researched relative clauses in Greek on fellowship at the Center of Hellenic Studies at Harvard University.[5] In 2011 she received a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to continue this research.[6] In September 2016, she was awarded a Title of Distinction as Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics.[7] She was the Acting President of Wolfson College between October 2017 and April 2018.[8] In 2024 she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.[9]
Her research is focused on Ancient Greek, Latin, Anatolian and Indo-European linguistics, and the Graeco-Roman grammatical tradition.[10]
Probert entered a civil partnership with Eleanor Dickey in 2008,[11] and they have since been married.[12]
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