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, before moving to Wadham in 2025, the University of Nottingham.

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.