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Christopher Stray

Christopher Allan Stray[1][2] (born 29 October 1943) is a British historian of classical scholarship and teaching.

Early life and education

Born at Norwich, son of Peter Stray and Margaret (née Beard),[3] Stray read Classics at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, taking a BA in 1966 and MA in 1985. He worked as a classics teacher, including at Latymer Upper School, West London, and was a member of the JACT Ancient History Committee in the late 1960s, under the chairmanship of Sir Moses Finley.[4][5]

Career

His academic writings began with his PhD thesis (1994, University College, Swansea) on the history of classical education in England, which was published as Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960 (Oxford University Press, 1998 ISBN 9780198150138). The book was awarded a Runciman Prize in 1999.[6] Stray has also worked on the history of universities,[7][8] on examinations,[9] and on institutional slang.[10][11]

Despite never holding a salaried academic post, Stray has held numerous prestigious fellowships and honorary positions, including: Honorary Research Fellowship,[12] Dept of History and Classics, Swansea University (from 1989); Visiting Fellowship, Wolfson College Cambridge (1996–98); John D and Rose H Jackson Fellowship, Beinecke Library, Yale University (2005);[13] Senior Research Fellowship, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London (2010–18); Member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2012).[14] He has also been active in collaborative research projects, and in organising conferences and colloquia, including:  Convener of the Textbook Colloquium (1988–99); co-organiser (with Stephen Harrison and Chris Kraus of conference on “Classical Commentaries” (Oxford, 2012); member of Advisory Board, “Classics and Class in Britain”, King’s College London, 2013–16 (from 2016 “People’s History of Classics”);[15] co-organiser (with Stephen Harrison) of conference on “Liddell & Scott” (Oxford, 2013).[16] A colloquium in his honour was held in Oxford in October 2018, organised by Stephen Harrison.[17]

Personal life

Stray married anthropologist Margaret Kenna, of Swansea University; they have a son.[18][19]

Works

Books

  • The Living Word: W. H. D. Rouse and the Crisis of Classics in Edwardian England (Bristol Classical Press, London 1992) ISBN 9781853992629
  • Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960 (Oxford University Press, 1998) ISBN 9780198150138
  • Classics in Britain, 1800-2000 (Clarendon Press, 2018) ISBN 9780199569373

As editor

  • The Classical Association: The First Century 1903–2003 (Classical Association, 2003) ISBN 9780198528746
  • Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge: Curriculum, Culture and Community (Cambridge Philological Society, 2005; Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Supplement 24) ISBN 0906014239
  • The Owl of Minerva. The Cambridge praelections of 1906. Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall (Cambridge Philological Society, 2005; Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Supplement 28 ISBN 0906014271
  • Remaking the Classics. Literature, genre and media in Britain (1800–2000) (Duckworth, 2007) ISBN 9780715636732
  • Gilbert Murray Reassessed. Hellenism, Theatre, and International Politics (Oxford University Press, 2007) ISBN 9780199208791
  • Oxford Classics: Teaching and Learning 1800–2000 (Duckworth, 2007) ISBN 9780715636459
  • Classical Books: Scholarship and Publishing in Britain Since 1800 (Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2007; Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 101) ISBN 9781905670154
  • Classical Dictionaries. Past, present and future (Duckworth, 2010) ISBN 9780715639160
  • Sophocles’ Jebb: A Life in Letters (Cambridge Philological Society, 2013; Cambridge Classical Journal supplement, 38).
  • Expurgating the Classics: Editing Out in Greek and Latin (Bristol Classical Press, London 2012) ISBN 9780956838131
  • With David Butterfield: A. E. Housman: Classical Scholar (Duckworth, 2009) ISBN 9780715638088
  • With Michael Clarke and Joshua Katz) Liddell and Scott: The History, Methodology, and Languages of the World's Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek (Oxford University Press, 2019) ISBN 9780198810803
  • With Judith P. Hallett: British Classics Outside England – The Academy and Beyond (Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas, 2008) ISBN 9781602580121
  • With Lorna Hardwick: A Companion to Classical Receptions (Wiley, 2008) ISBN 9781405151672
  • (with Chris Pelling and Stephen Harrison) Rediscovering E.R.Dodds: Scholarship, Poetry, and the Paranormal (Oxford University Press, 2019) ISBN 9780198777366
  • With Jonathan Smith: Cambridge in the 1830s. The Letters of Alexander Chisholm Gooden, 1831–1841 (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2003) ISBN 9781843830108
  • With Jonathan Smith: Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth-century Cambridge (Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 2001) ISBN 9780851157832

References

  1. ^ https://www.ias.edu/scholars/christopher-allan-stray
  2. ^ The Cambridge University List of Members up to December 1991, Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 1304
  3. ^ Contemporary Authors, Gale Research Company, 1994, p. 432
  4. ^ M. I. Finley- An Ancient Historian and his Impact, Daniel Jew, Robin Osborne, and Michael Scott, Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 141, 145
  5. ^ The Cambridge University List of Members up to December 1991, Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 1304
  6. ^ "Runciman Award: Previous Winners".
  7. ^ "Unseen university. Remembering and forgetting Cambridge". Cambridge Review. 2331: 1–8. November 1998.
  8. ^ Edited by Stray, Christopher (2008). An American in Victorian Cambridge: Charles Astor Bristed’s Five Years in an English University (1852). Exeter / Chicago: University of Exeter Press. ISBN 9780859898256. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  9. ^ "From oral to written examination: Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin 1700-1914". History of Universities. 20.2: 76–130. 2005.
  10. ^ Stray, Christopher (1996). The Mushri-English Pronouncing Dictionary. A Chapter in 19th- century Public-School Lexicography. Reading. ISBN 9780704907744.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  11. ^ Stray, Christopher (2003). "Mrs Gladstone's drawers: language and identity in Victorian families". Australasian Victorian Studies Journal. 9: 1–16.
  12. ^ "Christopher Stray".
  13. ^ "The Yale University Library Gazette". The Yale University Library Gazette. 80: 84.
  14. ^ "Members of the Institute of Advanced Study".
  15. ^ "A People's History of Classics".
  16. ^ "Liddell and Scott Colloquium".
  17. ^ "Colloquium in Honour of Christopher Stray".
  18. ^ Contemporary Authors, Gale Research Company, 1994, p. 432
  19. ^ Embodiments: The Social Construction of Gender in Dance-events in a Northern Greek Town, Jane K. Cowan, Indiana University, 1990, acknowledgements
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