Dr Joe Watson

@sapphicapuella Thank you!

@Joewatstein Congratulations! And good luck for a busy day!

It is once again proofs day—this time for a piece, forthcoming in Mnemosyne, on the meaning of ‘incest’ at Rome. It’s also the first day of term and ‘move offices’ day; all in all a busy day.

I’m having what can only be described as a productive research day…

@esigalas @CCavafy That’s no problem at all - please do DM me.

@Joewatstein @CCavafy Congratulations! Do you think you could email me a pdf of your chapter? The book is rather pricey. I could DM you my email. Thanks!

Lovely to receive my contributor copies of this smart new volume on Cavafy as World Literature. I have a short chapter about the uses to which Classicists put Cavafy in their scholarship.

Dr Cora Beth Fraser (@drcorabeth) has posted about the JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School … Don’t miss out on a place - Registration closes on 20th May. Contact - rosie.durham.lgss@gmail.com with any queries, or get in touch through our socials! wp.me/p8JYS2-3uO

these queer cycles to be instructive in our study of intertextuality—all too often understood as a linear, teleological process. [3/3]

that leads poets (Ennius, Catullus, Calvus, Gallus, Ovid, Tibullus, Domitius Marsus and Statius) to queer normative conceptions of time. Thus, characters become shared cyclically between poems from vastly different chronological eras. In all, I argue that we should take [2/3]

Delighted that my latest article, ‘Hell is Other Poets: Tibullus, Ovid and Statius in Queer Elysium’ is out in the Journal of Roman Studies: doi.org/10.1017/S00754…. In it, I argue that the Underworld operates, for Latin poetics, as a multiply-accessible ‘shared space’ [1/3]

Back in Durham for my talk this afternoon @Durham_Classics , titled ‘When Sappho Met Lydia’. It’s a reading of the Lydia through the lenses of both Sapphic intertextuality (philologically understood) and through Sapphic desire (via Sedgwick), in time for #LGBTHistoryMonth.

schools, esp. UK schools. As I discuss, the landscape of UK LGBTQ+ education (esp. trans education) is in a lot of flux, but hopefully, for those who are able to use them, QTP's resources provide helpful, tailored and scholarly information about LGBTQ+ ancient history [2/2]

Lovely to see this out (in FirstView): "Beyond gay history month: queering the past with ‘Queering the Past(s)’" (tinyurl.com/4vrskdw2), my new article in the Journal of Classics Teaching about using resources from queeringthepasts.com to provide LGBTQ+ education in [1/2]

Joe already circulated this, but from us too, thank you for this thoughtful reflection on some themes in EDI and Latin teaching. cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/07/…

Lovely to receive my author copies of CP 120.3, containing my recent article on the Carmina Priapea, obscenity and space!

We’ve redesigned the @JACTLatin_Greek Summer School website! We’re really proud of the way it looks, so please go and have a browse! It’s optimised for laptop/desktop/tablet but is accessible on mobile …. it just doesn’t look as good! Give us a click! durhamglss.org

Lovely to get my author copies of the Alaudae translation cooked up by @LombardiNash. I hadn’t read my translation (of Issue 7) since I sent it off in 2021, so it was delightful to revisit it this morning!

Here’s our brilliant 🤩 team of tutors for this year’s JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School! We’re looking forward to a brilliant week!

resources and examples of good practice across secondary and university-level Latin teaching in the UK! Co-authored with @hypsipyle, @MissCMort, @CressidaRyan, @drcorabeth, Francesca Modini and Vlada Oulitskaia. 2/2

Lovely to see this out in the world: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/07/…. My report of a workshop I organised at the 2024 CA on the intersections between EDI and Latin language teaching, out now in the @cucdbulletin. Read for an overview of the discussions had, but also for a lot of 1/2

@sapphicapuella Thank you!

@Joewatstein Congratulations from a very proud former supervisor!

It's publication day! My new article, 'Down the Garden Path: Divinity, Space, and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea', is out now in volume 120.3 of Classical Philology. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…