Stephen E. Hinds (he/him/his)

Professor Emeritus of Classics
Stephen Hinds portrait

Contact Information

DEN M-262G (north mezzanine, via stairway in Classics Dept.)
Office Hours
Autumn Qr: After class (if in Latin 520), and most days by appointment (shinds@uw.edu)

Biography

Ph.D. Cambridge, 1985
B.A., M.A. Trinity College, Dublin
Curriculum Vitae (161.66 KB)

Stephen Hinds is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Washington, Seattle.  He is the author of The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse (Cambridge 1987) and Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry (Cambridge 1998).  With Denis Feeney, he co-founded and co-edited the Cambridge book series Roman Literature and its Contexts (13 volumes, with the final title published in 2016).  Among his more recent articles are 'Pastoral and its Futures: Reading like (a) Mantuan' (2017), 'In and Out of Latin: Diptych and Virtual Diptych in Marvell, Milton, Du Bellay and Others' (2020), 'Ovid's exile poetry and zombies' (2023), and 'Bann Valley Eclogues' (2025, on Seamus Heaney); details in the pdf CV linked to this page.  A new book in production with Cambridge (publication expected early 2026), with the title Latin Poetry across Languages: Adventures in Allusion, Translation and Classical Tradition, offers exploration of the cross-linguistic and intercultural relations of Latin literature, both in antiquity and between antiquity and (early) modernity.   More longstanding commitments include a Cambridge ‘green and yellow’ commentary on Ovid, Tristia 1.  Stephen's page on academia.edu offers access to some work in progress, along with less readily accessible items among his recent publications; he added further pdfs from his backlist during the pandemic period of restricted access to libraries.

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