Christopher Stray

Christopher Stray is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, Heritage and Classics at Swansea University. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2012), Beinecke Library, Yale University (2005), and a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge (1996-98). His principal research interests are the history of classical scholarship and teaching, particularly at the university level; his essay collection Classics in Britain, 1800-2000 was published by...See more

Christopher Stray is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, Heritage and Classics at Swansea University. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2012), Beinecke Library, Yale University (2005), and a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge (1996-98). His principal research interests are the history of classical scholarship and teaching, particularly at the university level; his essay collection Classics in Britain, 1800-2000 was published by Clarendon Press in 2018. He has recently contributed to collaborative projects on William Whewell, Robert Leslie Ellis and Charles Babbage, and his edition of J.M.F. Wright's 1827 undergraduate memoir Alma Mater; or, Seven Years at the University of Cambridge appeared with University of Exeter Press in 2023. See less