Biography

Having first encountered Latin and Greek in the only secondary school in Iceland which still teaches ancient languages, I read for a double bachelor degree in Latin and Greek at the University of Iceland and spent a year at the University of Glasgow as an exchange student. In my MPhil in Classics at Cambridge I wrote a thesis on language contact in Ovid᾽s exile poetry. With my PhD project, I will continue to work on Latin sociolinguistics. Part of my project seeks to address the linguistic prejudice faced by people who speak a non-standard variety of language. This sort of prejudice is not new since it is also well attested in antiquity. By creating a fuller picture of social variation in Latin, I aim to highlight the fact that variation in language has always existed. I will do so by focusing on the connection between the linguistic behaviour and the social status of various Roman authors, concentrating on Latin epistolography. I am deeply honoured and grateful to do this research with the support of the Gates Cambridge Trust.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Classics 2022
University of Iceland Latin 2021
University of Iceland Greek 2021