
Dr Karen Caines originally read English Language and Literature at King’s College, London, and in 2008–12 undertook a Classics degree at Trinity College, Oxford. After an Oxford MSt in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, she wrote her DPhil (supervisors: Fiona Macintosh and Stephen Harrison) examining Lord Byron’s engagement with classical authors across the broad range of his works, including his self-proclaimed ‘studiously Greek’ dramas. Given past academic scrutiny of Philhellenism, she explored the influence of Rome as distinct from Greece in considering Byron’s deployment and transformation of classical materials at a seminal moment of Romanticism.
Karen is currently writing a book on this topic under contract to OUP. Her chapter on Byron’s translations from Greek and Latin will appear in Byron and Translation (ed. Maria Schoina and Alexander Grammatikos, Liverpool University Press) in November 2024.