Michael Putnam holds a PhD from Harvard University. He joined the Brown faculty in 1960 after teaching for a year at Smith College. He was Acting Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies 1961-62 and a Senior Fellow from 1971-1986. In 1963-64 he held a Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome where he was later a Resident and Mellon Professor in Charge of the Classical School. He has been a Life Trustee since 2010, and has received its Centennial Medal Trustees' Medal. He was elected a director of the American Philological Association in 1972 and has since served the Association in several capacities, and has received its Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit in 1971 and its Distinguished Service Award in 2013. In 2009 he inaugurated the Amsterdam Virgil Lectures at the University of Amsterdam. From 2013-16 he was Trustee of the Vergilian Society of America, receiving the Alexander G. McKay Prize in 2009. He is a member of the editorial boards of Arion and Vergilius.
Antony Augoustakis is the author of Silius Italicus, Punica 3 (Oxford, 2022), Statius, Thebaid 8 (Oxford, 2016), Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (Oxford, 2010) and Plautus' Mercator (Bryn Mawr, 2009). He has edited and co-edited several volumes on Flavian Epic, Roman Comedy, and Late Antiquity.
Carole Newlands has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Berkeley. Her current principal areas of research are Augustan and post Augustan poetry; she has also strong interests in late Antique and Medieval poetry, and in the reception of classical texts. Her first book was Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti (1995), and she continues to publish on Ovid's poetry. Her recent work on Statius includes two monographs, Statius' Siluae and the Poetics of Empire (2002), and Statius: Poet between Rome and Naples (2012); a commentary on Statius Siluae Book 2 for the Cambridge Greek and Latin series (2011); and she has co-edited with William J. Domink and Kyle Gervais the Brill Companion to Statius (2015). Among her current projects is a book in progress entitled Scotland and the Classics: Poetics, Translation, and Cultural Identity.