Dr Andrew Sillett

Andrew is a Romanist through and through. He has spent the last ten years at Oxford teaching and researching both Latin literature and Roman history. In this time, he has convinced his literature colleagues that he is an expert in history, and his history colleagues that he is an expert in literature.  He hopes that they will continue not comparing notes.
 

He is a product of our own Faculty of Classics’ Course 2 programme, arriving as an undergraduate from a comprehensive school with no provision for Classics teaching, let alone ancient languages. Latching onto a fellow novus, Andrew wrote his doctorate on Cicero and has been ploughing that furrow ever since.
 

After seven years as a Departmental Lecturer, Andrew has taken on the position of Senior Researcher in Classics Education. In this role, he works closely with the Outreach Officer and the Schools Liaison Officer to direct the Faculty’s strategic direction for outreach and widening participation. He is also carrying out research to help the Faculty provide teaching that is suited to the needs and expectations of all our undergraduate students.
 

Andrew is one of two Designated Safeguarding Leads for the Faculty of Classics. For any safeguarding concerns or queries please email outreach@classics.ox.ac.uk. 
 

Outreach talks offered:

• An Idiot’s Guide to Toppling a Dictator 
• Who Caused the Fall of the Republic?
• Exonerating Verres
• Introduction to the Pro Caelio
• Introduction to the Pro Cluentio
• Introduction to the Second Philippic
• The Grammar of Tyrants

(Get in touch if you would like to discuss other Ancient History lecture options.)