Matthew Nicholls

Matthew C. Nicholls (born 1978) is visiting professor of classics at the University of Reading and senior tutor at St John's College, University of Oxford. He is a specialist in libraries in the Roman empire and the history of the city of Rome. He has also created a large scale digital reconstruction of the ancient city of Rome, which is the basis of a popular Massive Open Online Course or MOOC.

Selected publications "Bibliotheca Latina Graecaque: on the possible division of Roman libraries by language". Latomus: SIEN Neronia VIII (2011), 327 . pp. 11–21. ISSN 0023-8856 "Galen and libraries in the Peri Alupias", Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 101 (2011), pp. 123–142. ISSN 1753-528X doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075435811000049 "Public libraries in the cities of the Roman Empire" in G. Woolf et al. (eds.) (2013) Ancient Libraries. Cambridge University Press. "Libraries and literature in Rome" in A. Claridge & C. Holleran (eds.) (2013) Companion to the City of Rome. Wiley-Blackwell. "A library at Antium?" in C. K. Rothschild & T. W. Thompson (eds.) (2014) Galen's De Indolentia: essays on a newly discovered letter. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum (88). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, pp. 65–78. "Le biblioteche come centri di cultura nel mondo Romano" in R. Meneghini & R. Rossella (eds.) (2014) La biblioteca Infinita: i luoghi di sapere nel mondo antico. Electa, Milan, pp. 82–97. "Libraries and networks of influence in the Roman world", Segno e Testo, 13 (2015), pp. 125–146. ISSN 2037-0245 "Libraries and communication in the Ancient World" in F. S. Naiden & R. J. A. Talbert (eds.) (2017) Mercury's Wings: exploring modes of communication in the ancient world. Oxford University Press, New York. "Sketchup and digital modelling for Classics" in B. Natoli & S. Hunt (eds.) (2019) Teaching Classics with Technology. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 131–144. "'Bookish places' in Imperial Rome: bookshops and the urban landscape of learning" in S. A. Adams (ed.) (2019) Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras: Greek, Latin, and Jewish. De Gruyter, pp. 51–68.