
Dr Alice Ahearn completed her DPhil at Wadham College, working on contemporary English translations and adaptations of Ovid’s Heroides. She researched how recent versions have rediscovered the heroines’ voices, and have reframed the ancient poems to amplify contemporary women’s intersecting experiences of misogynist and racist oppression and violence. Her thesis received an honourable mention in the 2024 Durham Prize in Classical Reception. She gained her BA in Classics from Oxford in 2015, and her MA from Durham University in 2016. She is now a librarian with the Bodleian Libraries, as well as a freelance writer, translator, and editor.
Alice's Latin–English translations are published in Patience (Broadview Press, 2024), Alaudae (Bloomsbury, 2025), and Ancient Exchanges (Spring 2024).