Simon Malloch

Born and raised in Western Australia, Simon Malloch took his undergraduate degree from the University of Western Australia and his doctorate from St John’s College in the University of Cambridge. He has held positions in e.g. Munich, Cambridge, the British School at Rome (as a member of the Faculty of Archaeology, History, and Letters), and the University of Nottingham, before moving to Wadham in 2025.

In Wadham, Simon teaches the Latin side of the Mods curriculum as well as a number of Greats papers. This translates into the Latin poetry and prose of the Roman Republic and early Principate, from (for example) Cicero and Catullus through Virgil and Ovid to Seneca and Tacitus. For the University he has so far delivered lectures or classes on Latin prose, Roman historiography, Cicero, and Neronian Literature.

Simon welcomes expressions of interest from prospective graduate applicants in the areas of Latin prose (broadly understood as including, e.g., transmission and textual criticism) and Roman historiography.

Simon's main area of research is Latin prose literature, especially the Roman historians from the perspectives of language, style, methodology, transmission, and influence. Other interests: the literature and history of the late Roman Republic and early Principate; Roman constitutional history; and the classical tradition (the transmission, editing, and textual criticism of Latin texts, palaeography, and the history of scholarship).

Publication highlights include scholarly editions of the Annals of Tacitus, book 11, and of the emperor Claudius’s famous speech supporting the admission of Roman Gauls to the senate. Simon is currently working on an edition of the Annals of Tacitus, book 12.