John Colley

Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge. Late medieval and Renaissance literature, translation, and classical reception.

[John Colley @JWSColley]

There is still a week left to register for this event on university drama on 16 May 2026!

[John Colley @JWSColley]

Delighted to be speaking at this wonderful event!

[Jacob Ridley @jacobridley78]

CONFERENCE ON TUDOR LITERATURE: The Oxford Drab Colloquium is at @magdalenoxford on 20 June!

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Come along to discuss CS Lewis's 'Drab Age', with a keynote from Andrew Hadfield and speakers including Laura Ashe and Karen Edwards.

Contact @HerinHan or me to attend!

[John Colley @JWSColley]

And the book is now available online! https://t.co/TSiIvTXzy2.

If early Tudor classical reception is your thing, please also consider checking out my second book, on Sallust, out in a few months’ time with the Early English Text Society (details in image below).

[John Colley @JWSColley]

Delighted that OUP is publishing my first monograph next year! @OUPAcademic https://t.co/qtqp8k5gPg

[Dr Rebecca Menmuir @RebeccaMenmuir]

My book now has a cover and its own webpage! Forthcoming with @CambridgeUP @CambUP_Classics, 'Classics After Antiquity' series: Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile.
https://t.co/8zSlcfegAF

[John Colley @JWSColley]

There's still one week left to submit an abstract for 'Staging Silence from Antiquity to the Renaissance'! 3-4 July 2025, St John's College Cambridge. [email protected]

[John Colley @JWSColley]

Delighted that OUP is publishing my first monograph next year! @OUPAcademic https://t.co/qtqp8k5gPg

[John Colley @JWSColley]

Thank you @ElenaGiusti7 for such a generous post! We're accepting abstracts for this conference on 'Staging Silence from Antiquity to the Renaissance' up to 9 Jan 2025. More information in the CfP below. We look forward to reading the submissions!

[John Colley @JWSColley]

@felicityebrown @jamesthewallace @LookingForLorna Congratulations! A fun, classically-infused read!

[Felicity Brown @felicityebrown]

My piece on translations of Seneca and Lucan in the play is nestled between the wonderful work of @jamesthewallace and @LookingForLorna

[John Colley @JWSColley]

Thrilled that my article on Josephus and The House of Fame is now out in SAC 43! Hugely grateful to the editors and SAC's readers for their comments and support. @SACJournal @mannkarnes @SebSobecki