Irene Peirano

Irene Peirano Garrison is an American philologist and Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University. She studied at Oriel College, Oxford and Harvard, then was at the Yale Classics department from 20072020. She is known for her works on Roman poetry and its relation to rhetoric, literary criticism and scholarship, both ancient and modern.

Books The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake: Latin Pseudepigrapha in context (CUP, 2012) Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry (CUP, 2019)