Barbara Graziosi is Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History. What interests me is ancient Greek literature, and the way in which readers make it their own - 'the balance between the classical and the familiar', as Cesare Pavese put it. In my first book, Inventing Homer (Cambridge 2002), I argued that early stories about Homer tell us something important about the way archaic and classical audiences imagined the poet and understood his poetry. My second book, written together with Johannes Haubold, explores the relationship between Homeric epic and wider Greek views about the cosmos and its history. After Homer: The Resonance of Epic (London 2005), I wrote a commentary on Iliad 6 for the Cambridge 'Green and Yellow' series, again with Johannes Haubold: Iliad 6: A Commentary (Cambridge 2010). I have also edited two volumes: Homer in the 20th Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon (Oxford 2007), with Emily Greenwood, explores the place of Homer in the literary landscape of the twentieth century; The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies, edited with George Boys-Stones and Phiroze Vasunia (Oxford 2009), was my attempt at getting a panoramic view of the field of Hellenic Studies.

My current research focuses on a major project funded by the European Research Council and entitled Living Poets: A New Approach to Ancient Poetry. The programme for Optical Character Recognition of Ancient Greek, developed as part of that project, has major practical applications: a 'Proof of Concept' grant, also awarded by the European Research Council, funds further development of OCR for early modern books printed in Latin, which will in due course enable libraries to turn early books into fully searchable digital texts.