Ballot Archive

27 Jun 2024

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Kathryn Tempest

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA, MA, Ph.D. (Royal Holloway), FHEA

Profession or occupation

University lecturer

Grounds for election

Kathryn Tempest is Lecturer in Roman History at the University of Leicester; previously she was Reader at Roehampton University. Her publications include ‘Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome’ (Continuum, 2011) and ‘Brutus: The Noble Conspirator’ (Yale, 2017). Her current project on the ‘pseudepigrapha’ or fake letters of M. Iunius Brutus received Leverhulme funding and has already resulted in three publications. She is editor for 'Omnibus', which produces high-quality articles on the ancient world. In recognition of her outreach work, she was appointed Vice-President for the Association of Latin Teaching, and Outreach Officer (now Vice-President) for the Classical Association. Her work ranges across Cicero and Roman Republican history, as well as the theory and practice of rhetoric. She has acted as historical consultant for the BBC, Netflix and History Channel, and has contributed to BBC Radio programmes, including In Our Time and Rory Stewart’s Long History of Argument.

Signatories

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