Lucia Prauscello

Lucia Prauscello is a Classicist who works on Greek Philology and Literature. She is a Professor at the University of Oxford.

Prauscello completed her undergraduate degree at Pisa University in 1999, followed by a postgraduate degree at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa in 2003.

Prauscello held a Junior Research Fellowship at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (from 2003 to 2004) followed by a Momigliano Fellowship in Arts at UCL from 2004 to 2006. In 2005 Prauscello was appointed as a University Lecturer, later Senior University Lecturer, at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Trinity Hall. From 2016 to 2018 she was a University Reader at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Classics. In 2015 she held a Humboldt Fellowship at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2018 she has been a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford.

Prauscello is on the editorial board of Sapienza Università Editrice, the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Management Committee and since 2017 is a co-editor of the Cambridge Classical Journal.

• 2006.Singing Alexandria: Music between Practice and Textual Transmission, Mnemosyne Supplement Series. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
• 2013. E. Bakola, L. Prauscello and M. Telò (eds.), Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 2014. Hands and book-rolls in P.Oxy.4411: the first extant papyrus witness for Plato’s Critias (= P.Oxy.4411 frr. 88-90 + 92 + 94-95)’, co-authored with G. Ucciardello. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 191: 47-58.
• 2013. Demeter and Dionysos in the sixth-century southern Argolid: Lasus of Hermione, the cult of Demeter Chthonia and the origins of dithyramb’, in B. Kowalzig and P. Wilson (eds.), Song Culture and Social Change: The Contexts of Dithyramb. Oxford: 76-92.
• 2014. Hands and book-rolls in P.Oxy.4411: the first extant papyrus witness for Plato’s Critias (= P.Oxy.4411 frr. 88-90 + 92 + 94-95)’, co-authored with G. Ucciardello. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 191: 47-58.
• 2014. Performing Citizenship in Plato’s Laws. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 2015. Sappho, fr. 88 Voigt (P.Oxy.2290 + P.Oxy.4411): a re-appraisal’, co-authored with G. Ucciardello. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 195: 13-29.
• 2019. Themistocles’ philotimia in IEleusis 300 (= SEG 30.93) ll. 65-67: some linguistic observations.Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik.