Teresa Morgan

Who is Teresa Morgan?

The Reverend Dr Teresa Morgan is an English academic and cleric, best known as the author of Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds.

Morgan is Nancy Bissell Turpin Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Oriel College, Oxford, where she is also Senior Dean. She also holds the posts of Lecturer in Ancient History at Jesus College, Oxford and Lecturer in Ancient History, Faculty of Classics, Oxford University.

Morgan attended Oxford High School before studying the viola at the Hochschule für Musik, Cologne. As an undergraduate, she studied at Clare College, Cambridge and was a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music. She was a Research Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and Newnham College, Cambridge, Fellow and Tutor of University College, Oxford, and has been a Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College since 2000. She holds a Master's degree and doctorate from Cambridge, Dip. R.A.M., L.R.A.M., and a Master's degree from Oxford.

Her research interests lie in the study of popular ethics in antiquity and contemporary historiography. Her work covers aspects of the relationship between literature and society in antiquity, cultural and intellectual history and early Christian history. In April 2013, she presented an edition of the Radio Four programme called "Something Understood" on the subject of humility.