Stephen E. Hinds (he/him/his)

Stephen Hinds is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Washington, Seattle.  Earlier in his career, he was 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 regular title published in 2016, but with a surprise late addition now on the way).  Among Stephen's 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.  His new book (Cambridge, publ. March 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.