Eleanor Dickey

Eleanor Dickey (born 9 April 1967) is an American classicist, linguist, and academic, who specialises in the history of the Latin and Greek languages. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Classics at the University of Reading in England.

Early life and education Dickey was born on 9 April 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College, graduating with both Bachelor of Arts (AB) and Master of Arts (MA) degrees in 1989. She then moved to England, and studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in 1991.

Academic career From 1995 to 1999, Dickey was an assistant professor of classics at the University of Ottawa in Canada. and she held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2013 to 2015.

Honours In 2014, Dickey was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Also in 2014, she was elected as a Member of the Academia Europaea.

Selected works

Dickey, Eleanor and Anna Chahoud, eds. (2010) Colloquial and Literary Latin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010