Dr. Trevor Evans

Brief description

Trevor Evans is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History, Faculty of Arts and member of the Ancient Cultures Research Centre at Macquarie University. He took his first degree at the University of New England (1985-91), focusing on ancient languages, and went on to pursue doctoral studies at the University of Sydney under the supervision of Dr John Lee (1992-7). The early years of his professional career were spent at Macquarie University as Research Officer (1998-2001) and later Macquarie University Research Fellow (2001-4). Transferring to the University of Oxford he worked as Assistant Editor of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (2004-7) and was also appointed Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College (2005-7). He returned to Macquarie in 2007 to take up a lectureship within the Department of Ancient History as a member of the Concentration of Research Excellence (CORE) in Ancient Cultures, and now teaches a range of Greek and Latin courses and convenes the Macquarie Ancient History Research Seminar. He has broad research interests in the history of the Greek and Latin languages within their changing cultural contexts, including the complex issues of linguistic diversity, multilingualism, and ancient literacy. A special focus is the history of the Greek language in the post-classical period (300BCE-600CE). He has published on the language of Greek and Latin papyri and related documents, the language of the Septuagint, and Greek and Latin lexicography.