Emily Hauser

Dr Emily Hauser is an award-winning ancient historian and author, and a world-leading voice in rediscovering the women of the ancient world. She studied Classics at Cambridge with Mary Beard, where she graduated with a double first with distinction and won the prestigious University of Cambridge Chancellor’s Medal for Classical Proficiency. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard, has a PhD in Classics from Yale University, was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows, and now lectures in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. The author of acclaimed novels rewriting Greek myth, including For the Most Beautiful, as well as a number of academic works, her books have been published and translated across the world, listed among the "28 Best Books for Summer" in The Telegraph and shortlisted for the Seminary Co-Op’s Best Books of 2023. She has appeared on several BBC Radio shows including BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, and has been featured in The Guardian alongside Colm Tóibín and Natalie Haynes.

Her new book, Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, through the Women Written Out Of It, is out in the UK and US in April 2025 (https://www.waterstones.com/book/mythica/emily-hauser//9781529932485).