Christina Kraus

Christina Shuttleworth Kraus is the Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin. After receiving her BA from Princeton and PhD from Harvard, she taught at NYU, UCL, and Oxford before coming to Yale in the summer of 2004. She has research interests in ancient historiography, Latin prose style, and the theory and practice of commentaries, and teaching interests in book history and the reception of the Classics in all periods.

Publications

‘Pointing the moral’ or ‘adorning the tale?'
Illustrations and commentary on Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum in 19th- and early 20th-century American textbooks’, in Classical scholarship and its history, Essays in Honour of Christopher Stray
2021
Commenting on the Annales
Steuart, Skutsch, and Ennius
2020
Fabula and history in Livy’s narrative of the capture of Veii
in Historical consciousness and uses of the past in the ancient world
2019
Marginality, canonicity, passion
2018
Classical commentaries
Explorations in a scholarly genre
2016