Eleanor Dickey is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Academia Europaea. She holds BA and MA degrees from Bryn Mawr College (USA) as well as a PhD from Oxford, and has taught at the University of Ottawa (Canada), Columbia University (New York), University of Exeter (UK), LMU München, Sorbonne Université, and Universiteit Leiden. Her work concerns the use and understanding of Latin and Greek during antiquity, with a focus on how ancient people who had not grown up speaking those languages were able to learn them later in life. She has published over a hundred scholarly works, including books entitled Lettres fictives d’un humaniste: l’enseignement du grec à la Renaissance (Paris 2025), Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek: A Lexicon and Analysis (Cambridge 2023), Learning Latin the Ancient Way (Cambridge 2016), Introduction to the Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose (Cambridge 2016), The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana (Cambridge 2012-15), Ancient Greek Scholarship (2010), and Greek Forms of Address: From Herodotus to Lucian (1996).