Jane Lightfoot

Jane Lucy Lightfoot FBA is a Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of New College and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Professor Lightfoot has been a tutor at New College, Oxford since 2003.[1] Prior to this, she held a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College from 1994 to 2000, and a Post Doctoral Fellowship at All Souls from 2000 to 2003.[2]

Her research interests include most aspects of Greek literature, with her publications focusing primarily on Hellenistic and imperial literature.[1] Her specialism is in the exploration of underrepresented classical texts, including mythography, ethnography, oracular literature, poetry and prose.[3] Her current work is a critical interpretation of late antique astrological poetry.[1]

Lightfoot was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018, a fellowship of leading academics elected for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences.[4] She is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.[5]