Emily Clifford
Dr Emily Clifford is an academic and writer interested in art, literature, and imagination. After an undergraduate degree in Classics at Cambridge, she studied at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar. She received a Doctorate in Classics at Oxford, then took up a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford before joining the University of Warwick as an Assistant Professor in Classics.
Her academic writings include Figuring Death in Classical Athens (OUP, 2025), reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement and in Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Her debut novel, VIRAGO, weaves together a reimagination of a revolutionary moment in ancient history with specialist knowledge of ancient art and literature.
She lives outside Oxford with her husband and sons. When she’s not writing, she’s playing cards, dancing, and supervising chaos.