Douglas Cairns - Biography#

PhD in Greek, University of Glasgow, 1987. Lecturer in Greek, University of St Andrews, 1986; Post-doctoral Fellow, Leverhulme Trust, Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, 1987-8; Lecturer in Classics, University of Otago, 1988-92; Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Leeds, 1992-9; Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow, 1999-2004. Chair of Classics at Edinburgh 2004-; Head of Classics 2004-5, Head of School from 2005-8. Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in 1993-5 (Georg-August Universität, Göttingen) and 2011 (Humboldt Universität, Berlin); Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust from 2008-11; Visiting Professor in Classics, Kyoto University, Japan 2008; George R. Langford Family Eminent Scholar Chair, Florida State University, 2012.