Background
Maria Wyke was born in London in 1957 to a Mexican mother and an Australian father.
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She was educated at Catholic schools and studied classics at Somerville College, Oxford University (1976-1980). She subsequently completed her Doctor of Philosophy at Kings College, University of Cambridge.
Career
She is a specialist in Latin love poetry and the interpretation of the roles of men and women in the ancient world. She has also written widely on the role of the figure of Julius Caesar in Western culture. Wyke began her academic career at Manchester University from where she joined Queen"s College, Oxford University and went on to the University of North London and Newnham College.
She joined University College, London, in September 2005 as professor of Latin.
Her research relates to Latin love poetry and the interpretation of the roles of men and women in the ancient world. She is co-director of the Centre for Research in the Dynamics of Civilisation (Centre de Recherche pour l’Etude et l’Observation des Condition de Vie, France) and deputy Director of University College London"s Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Programmes (CHIRP).
Wyke has written on the role of the figure of Julius Caesar in Western culture, editing a collection of essays on the subject that was published by Blackwell in 2006 (Julius Caesar in Western Culture), authoring Caesar: A Life in Western Culture (Granta, 2007. University of Chicago, 2008) and more recently writing Caesar in the United States of America which was published by University of California Press in 2012.
