Michael Hanaghan

I completed my PhD in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney, following a B.A (Advanced), B.A (Hons I), and Grad. Cert (Ancient World).

I then held posts at the University of Exeter and University College Cork (IRC Postdoctoral Fellow) for IRC funded project 'Reading Sidonius' Epistles' at University College Cork which led to my first monograph published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.

I hold a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Exeter), am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), a Charlemont Scholar of the Royal Irish Academy, and a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation.

I have published on epistolography, panegyric, and historiography with a particular focus on the Late Latin West.
I am an ARC DECRA fellow (DE230100573) for the project "Classical Traditions and Future Thinking in Late Antiquity" based at ACU and a chief investigator on the ARC funded Discovery Project (DP220100395) The Vandal Renaissance: Latin Literature in Post-Roman Africa (435-534CE) based at the University of Sydney.

Areas of expertise: Latin Epistolography (Sidonius Apollinaris, Pliny the Younger, Seneca); Historiography (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rufinus of Aquileia, Eusebius); Panegyric (Sidonius Apollinaris, Panegyrici Latini); Philosophy (Epictetus, Augustine)