Laura Swift

Laura Ann Swift (born 21 November 1979) is a British classical scholar, specialising in the theatre of ancient Greece, Greek tragedy and Greek lyric poetry. She has been a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2022, and Professor of Greek in the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford since 2024. She previously taught at University College London and the Open University. In October 2026, it was announced that she would be the next Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. She will take up the post on 1 October 2027, and will move to become a "student" (i.e. fellow) at Christ Church, Oxford.

Selected works

• Swift, Laura (2010). The hidden chorus: echoes of genre in tragic lyric. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199577842.
• Swift, Laura (2016). Greek tragedy: themes and contexts. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1474236836.
• Hancock-Jones, Robert; Renshaw, James; Swift, Laura (2017). OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Components 21 and 22. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1350015111.
• Swift, Laura, ed. (2022). A companion to Greek lyric. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781119122623.
• Allan, William; Swift, Laura, eds. (2024). Euripides: Bacchae. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1108948388.

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