Dr
Jonathan Katz
Emeritus Fellow
Lecturer in Classics, Brasenose College
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College
University Public Orator
Academic background
Studied Classics and Oriental Studies, Oxford University;
JRF and Research Fellow, Wolfson College, and Indian Institute Librarian, Bodleian Library, 1977-87;
Master of the Queen’s Scholars and Head of Classics, Westminster School, London, 1987-2010;
Visiting Fellow of the Humanities Council, Princeton University, 1991;
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 2004-5;
Lecturer in Classics, St Anne’s College, 2010-2024.
Fellow, All Souls College, 2014-present.
Public Orator from 2016.
Research interests
- Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit language and literature
- Plato and Greek Philosophy
- South Asian music and musicology
- Indian music theory and history
- Comparative study of musical cognition
Selected Publications
- ‘South Indian Music’, in Classical Music Systems, ed. Michael Church (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2015).
- ‘Rāgas, Mood and Representation’, in The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture, eds. T. Shephard and A. Leonard London (London: Routledge, 2014).
- (trans.), Hotel Savoy, by Joseph Roth (London: Hesperus Press, 2013).
- ‘Early Latin Literature’, ‘Roman Drama’, ‘Early Greek Philosophy’, and ‘Philosophical Writing’, in Classical Literature: an Introduction, ed. N. Croally and R. Hyde (London: Routledge, 2010).
- (trans.), ‘Who is the Traitor’ and ‘Not Too Far’ – two stories in ‘The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage’, by J.W. von Goethe [from Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre] (London: Hesperus Press, 2010).