I joined the Regent’s Park community in 2021. My research focuses on elections and popular participation in politics in the Roman world. I also dabble in archaeology, having worked on excavations in Halaesa in northern Sicily since 2019. I am particularly interested in how the built environment of ancient cities reflects how people interacted with political elites and engaged with political institutions. I am currently working on making a book out of my doctoral thesis, which reconstructed a social history of the Roman aedileship, a middle-ranking political office at Rome. I have a few side projects on literary translation: I have published on Dante and Seamus Heaney’s reception of Italian poetry, and I am working on translating an extensive collection of selected poems by the Italian poet Claudio Pasi.

I hold Master’s degrees in Literary Translation Studies and Classics (Victoria University of Wellington) and a doctorate in Ancient History (Oxford).

My role in College

I teach all Roman history topics in Classics and joint schools. As Joint Director of Studies, I oversee the academic path of the vibrant Classics community at Regent’s Park.

 

Selected Publications

Ancient History

Smith, T. (2021) ‘Elections in the Time of Cinna’, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 70.1, 29–54.

Literary translation studies

Smith, T. (2021) ‘Thickening the Texture’, in M. Sonzogni and M. Zanetti (eds.) Raids and Settlements: Seamus Heaney as translator  (The Cuba Press), 173–91.

As co-editor

Antoniou, A. A., Smith, T., and Webb, K. (eds) (forthcoming) The Roman Censorship: Perceptions and Realities (De Gruyter).

Sonzogni, M. and Smith, T. (eds) (2021) More Favourable Waters: Aotearoa Poets Respond to Dante’s Purgatory (The Cuba Press).

Smith, T. and Sonzogni, M. (eds) (2017) To Hell and Back: An anthology of Dante’s Inferno in English Translation (John Benjamins).

Translations

Smith, T. (due 2023) ‘Poems by Tiziano Fratus’, Journal of Italian Translation.

Smith, T. (due 2022) ‘English translation of poems by Gisella Blanco, Valentina Colonna, Flavio Santi, and Saverio Bafaro’, Journal of Italian Translation.

Smith, T. (2020) ‘English translation of poems by Stefania Onidi and Mariangela Maio’, Journal of Italian Translation 15.2, 244–63.

Smith, T. (2020) ‘English translation of poems by Odette Copat’, Journal of Italian Translation 15.1, 256–65.

Smith, T. (2017) ‘English translation of poems by Matteo Marchesini and Gilda Policastro’, Journal of Italian Translation 12.1: 230–50.

Pasi, C. (2016) Observations. Translated by T. Smith and M. Sonzogni (Wellington: Seraph Press).