Susanna Braund, PhD

Biography: Susanna Morton Braund is the Canada Research Chair in Latin Poetry and its Reception at the University of British Columbia. Braund received a BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge. She has taught at the Universities of Exeter, Bristol, and London in the UK; and at Stanford and Yale Universities. Braund has published extensively on Roman satire and Latin epic poetry. Her 1992 translation (Oxford World's Classics series) of Lucan's Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2009) has sold 11,000 copies to date. Braund is the author of Juvenal: Satires Book I (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Latin Literature (Routledge, 2002), and A Lucan Reader: Selections from Civil War (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2009).