Staff profile

Areas of doctoral supervision

I am keen to supervise students working on any aspect of Latin poetry and its reception (including translation), as well as those with an interest in the reception of Roman culture in later constructions of homosexuality.

Education and career

I took up a lectureship at Durham in 2004, on completion of my Oxford D. Phil., and after holding teaching posts in the United States, the University of Wales, and several Oxford colleges.

Research and other interests

I have a long-standing interest in Latin poetry (particularly the works of the elegists and Catullus), its relationship with politics and culture, and its reception (including its translation history). I welcome enquiries from prospective graduate students considering working in any of these areas. A more recent research interest is in how later cultures have responded to the phenomenon of Roman sexuality, and the role which ancient Rome has played in modern ideas about homosexuality in particular, and I would welcome prospective graduate students with an interest in this underexplored and diverse area.

A revised version of my doctoral thesis, a commentary on Ovid, Tristia 2, was published as my first monograph by Oxford University Press in 2010, and OUP also published my edited volume on the reception of the figure of the exiled Ovid (Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile after Ovid), in 2011. 

An ongoing research project, Romosexuality, explores the role played by the reception of Rome in the construction of Western homosexual identities; I organised a major international conference (funded by the British Academy) on this topic which was held in Durham in April 2012, and I then edited for OUP a collected volume of papers arising from the conference: for more information on the conference and its remit, see http://romosexuality.wordpress.com/. This interest led to my work on a monograph entitled Masculine Plural: Queer Classics, Sex, and Education (2018, OUP), which explores the queer classicism of schoolmaster and author Philip Gillespie Bainbrigge (1890-1918), classicist A. E. Housman (particularly in his Praefanda), and others, as expressed in 'underground' works.

My most recent monograph (forthcoming with Bloomsbury, July 2026), is A Grecian Lad: A. E. Housman and the Classics - this takes further my interest in Housman and focuses in particular on the divide that readers have perceived between the Professor of Latin and the poet. 

I am also working on adaptations of Catullus' personal poetry into the lost gay language, Polari; several of my versions have been published in Shearsman and Stand magazines, and Fruit Journal, and I plan to publish a book-length collection.

My interests in the history of sexuality and in works which have received societal censure or even censorship led me to act as the curator of a 2018-19 display at the Bodleian Library, Story of Phi; this display exhibited in public for the first time books from the Bodleian's extensive collection of works considered 'obscene', which were once segregated from the rest of the Bodleian's collection. 

I am keen to share my love of classics with more than just my fellow academics and students, and my introductory essays on the AS level Latin set text (Ovid, Amores 3.2, 4, 5 and 14) were published by Bristol Classical Press; I also regularly speak at school and outreach events around the country, and appeared in Michael Wood's 2017 BBC 4 documentary, Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor, and in the 2025 documentary, The Other 300: Army of Lovers (about the Sacred Band of Thebes). 

• Ovid
• Ovidian exile and its reception
• Politics and Latin poetry
• Reception of Latin poetry
• Reception of Roman homosexuality
• Sex and censorship
• The history of homosexuality
• Catullus

Authored book

• Masculine Plural: Queer Classics, Sex, and Education
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2018). Masculine Plural: Queer Classics, Sex, and Education. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819677.001.0001
• Ovid, Amores 3: A Selection: 2, 4, 5, 14.
  
  Ingleheart, J., & Radice, K. (2011). Ovid, Amores 3: A Selection: 2, 4, 5, 14. Bristol Classical Press.
• A Commentary on Ovid, Tristia, Book 2.
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2010). A Commentary on Ovid, Tristia, Book 2. Oxford University Press.

Book review

• (R.K.) Gibson, (S.) Green, (A.) Sharrock (edd.) The Art of Love. Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris. Pp. xii + 375. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Cased, £60. ISBN: 978-0-19-927777-3.
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2008). (R.K.) Gibson, (S.) Green, (A.) Sharrock (edd.) The Art of Love. Bimillennial Essays on Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris. Pp. xii + 375. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Cased, £60. ISBN: 978-0-19-927777-3. Classical Review, 58(1), 129-131. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009840x07002144

Chapter in book

• Reading sex in Amores 1.4 and 1.5: repetition, coupling, and Ovidian erotics
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2024). Reading sex in Amores 1.4 and 1.5: repetition, coupling, and Ovidian erotics. In T. Franklinos & J. Ingleheart (Eds.), Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy (pp. 87-105). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198908111.003.0005
• Amores Plural: Ovidian Homoerotics in the Elegies
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2021). Amores Plural: Ovidian Homoerotics in the Elegies. In T. S. Thorsen, I. Brecke, & S. Harrison (Eds.), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (pp. 185-212). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110633030-011
• Vates Lesbia: images of Sappho in the poetry of Ovid.
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2019). Vates Lesbia: images of Sappho in the poetry of Ovid. In S. Harrison & T. Thorsen (Eds.), Roman Receptions of Sappho (pp. 205-225). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829430.001.0001
• Romosexuality: Rome, Homosexuality, and Reception
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2015). Romosexuality: Rome, Homosexuality, and Reception. In J. Ingleheart (Ed.), Ancient Rome and the construction of modern homosexual identities . (pp. 1-35). Oxford University Press.
• Putting the Roman Back into Romance: The Subversive Case of the Anonymous Teleny
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2015). Putting the Roman Back into Romance: The Subversive Case of the Anonymous Teleny. In J. Ingleheart (Ed.), Ancient Rome and the construction of modern homosexual identities. (pp. 144-160). Oxford University Press.
• The Invention of (Thracian) Homosexuality: The Ovidian Orpheus in the English Renaissance
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2015). The Invention of (Thracian) Homosexuality: The Ovidian Orpheus in the English Renaissance. In J. Ingleheart (Ed.), Ancient Rome and the construction of modern homosexual identities. (pp. 56-73). Oxford University Press.
• Introduction: Two Thousand Years of Responses to Ovid's Exile
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2011). Introduction: Two Thousand Years of Responses to Ovid’s Exile. In J. Ingleheart (Ed.), Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid (pp. 1-19). Oxford University Press.
• 'I shall be thy devoted foe': the exile of the Ovid of the Ibis in English reception
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2011). ’I shall be thy devoted foe’: the exile of the Ovid of the Ibis in English reception. In J. Ingleheart (Ed.), Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid (pp. 119-134). Oxford University Press.
• I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here: the reception of Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians in Ovid's Exile Poetry.
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2010). I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here: the reception of Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians in Ovid’s Exile Poetry. In I. Gildenhard & M. Revermann (Eds.), Beyond the fifth century: Interactions with Greek Tragedy from the Fourth Century BCE to the Middle Ages. (pp. 219-246). de Gruyter.
• Transformations of the Actaeon myth: Ovid, Metamorphoses 3 and Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid.
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2009). Transformations of the Actaeon myth: Ovid, Metamorphoses 3 and Ted Hughes’ Tales from Ovid. In R. Rees (Ed.), Ted Hughes and the Classics. (pp. 199-215). Oxford University Press.
• Writing to the Emperor: Horace's Presence in Ovid'S, Tristia 2.
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2009). Writing to the Emperor: Horace’s Presence in Ovid’S, Tristia 2. In L. Houghton & M. Wyke (Eds.), Perceptions of Horace: A Roman Poet and his Readers. (pp. 123-139). Cambridge University Press.
• Et mea sunt populo saltata poemata saepe (Tristia 2.519). Ovid and the pantomime
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2008). Et mea sunt populo saltata poemata saepe (Tristia 2.519). Ovid and the pantomime. In E. Hall & M. Wyles (Eds.), New Directions in Ancient Pantomime. (pp. 198-217). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199232536.003.0010
• Translation, Identity, and the History of Sexuality: Explorations in Burton and Smithers's Catullus
  
  Ingleheart, J. (n.d.). Translation, Identity, and the History of Sexuality: Explorations in Burton and Smithers’s Catullus. In J. Henderson & R. F. Thomas (Eds.), The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny [Contracted by publisher] (pp. 393-421). Harvard University Press.
• High Culture in Low Company? The Reception of Ancient 'Homosexuality' in the Pornographic 'The Sins of the Cities of the Plain'.
  
  Ingleheart, J. (n.d.). High Culture in Low Company? The Reception of Ancient ’Homosexuality’ in the Pornographic ’The Sins of the Cities of the Plain’. In E. Richardson (Ed.), Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception [Contracted by publisher] (pp. 88-100). Bloomsbury.

Edited book

• Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities
  
  Ingleheart, J. (Ed.). (2015). Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199689729.001.0001
• Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid
  
  Ingleheart, J. (Ed.). (2011). Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid. Oxford University Press.

Journal Article

• Translation and the homosexual canon: Thomas Cannon’s 1749 ‘Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify’d’
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2024). Translation and the homosexual canon: Thomas Cannon’s 1749 ‘Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify’d’. Classical Receptions Journal, 16(3), 254-272. https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clad032
• The Ovidian Bedroom (Ars amatoria 2.703–34): The Place of Sex in Ovidian Erotic Elegy and Erotodidactic Verse
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2021). The Ovidian Bedroom (Ars amatoria 2.703–34): The Place of Sex in Ovidian Erotic Elegy and Erotodidactic Verse. TAPA, 151(2), 295-333. https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2021.0012
• Responding to Ovid’s Pygmalion episode and receptions of same-sex love in Classical antiquity: art, homosexuality, and the Curatorship of Classical culture in E. M. Forster’s ‘The Classical Annex’
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2015). Responding to Ovid’s Pygmalion episode and receptions of same-sex love in Classical antiquity: art, homosexuality, and the Curatorship of Classical culture in E. M. Forster’s ‘The Classical Annex’. Classical Receptions Journal, 7(2), 141-158. https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clt017
• Exegi monumentum: exile, death, immortality, and monumentality in Ovid, Tristia 3.3
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2015). Exegi monumentum: exile, death, immortality, and monumentality in Ovid, Tristia 3.3. Classical Quarterly, 65(1), 286-300. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000983881400072x
• ‘Greek’ love at Rome: Propertius 1.20 and the reception of Hellenistic verse
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2015). ‘Greek’ love at Rome: Propertius 1.20 and the reception of Hellenistic verse. Journal EuGeStA, 5, 124-153.
• Play on the proper names of individuals in the Catullan corpus: wordplay, the iambic tradition, and the late Republican culture of public abuse
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2014). Play on the proper names of individuals in the Catullan corpus: wordplay, the iambic tradition, and the late Republican culture of public abuse. Journal of Roman Studies, 104, 51-72. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435814000069
• Ovid's scripta puella: Perilla as poetic and political fiction in Tristia 3.7
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2012). Ovid’s scripta puella: Perilla as poetic and political fiction in Tristia 3.7. Classical Quarterly, 62(1), 227-241. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838811000504
• The Literary 'Successor': Ovidian Meta-poetry and Metaphor
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2010). The Literary ’Successor’: Ovidian Meta-poetry and Metaphor. Classical Quarterly, 60(1), 167-172. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838809990516
• Victoria Rimell, Ovid's Lovers: Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination.
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2007). Victoria Rimell, Ovid’s Lovers: Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Advance online publication.
• Propertius 4.10 and the end of the Aeneid: Augustus, the spolia opima and the right to remain silent
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2007). Propertius 4.10 and the end of the Aeneid: Augustus, the spolia opima and the right to remain silent. Greece and Rome, 54(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0017383507000046
• Gaertner (J. F.) (ed., trans.) Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto, Book I. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary.
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2007). Gaertner (J. F.) (ed., trans.) Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto, Book I. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary. Classical Review, 57(1), 112-14.
• Ovid's error: Actaeon, sight, sex, and striptease.
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2006). Ovid’s error: Actaeon, sight, sex, and striptease. Omnibus, 52, 6-8.
• What the Poet Saw: Ovid, the error and the theme of sight in Tristia 2
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2006). What the Poet Saw: Ovid, the error and the theme of sight in Tristia 2. Materiali E Discussioni Per L’Analisi Dei Testi Classici, 56(1), 63-86. https://doi.org/10.1400/53422
• Ovid, Tristia 1.2: high drama on the high seas
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2006). Ovid, Tristia 1.2: high drama on the high seas. Greece and Rome, 53(1), 73-91. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0017383506000052
• Burning Manuscripts: the literary apologia in Ovid's Tristia 2 and Vladimir Nabokov's On a Book Entitled Lolita
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2006). Burning Manuscripts: the literary apologia in Ovid’s Tristia 2 and Vladimir Nabokov’s On a Book Entitled Lolita. Classical and Modern Literature., 26(2), 79-109.
• Review: R. Dimundo: Ovidio. Lezioni d'amore. Saggio di commento al I Libro dell' Ars amatoria
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2006). Review: R. Dimundo: Ovidio. Lezioni d’amore. Saggio di commento al I Libro dell’ Ars amatoria. Classical Review, 56(1), 114-115.
• Catullus 2 and 3: A programmatic pair of Sapphic Epigrams?
  
  Ingleheart, J. (2003). Catullus 2 and 3: A programmatic pair of Sapphic Epigrams? Mnemosyne, 56(5), 551-565. https://doi.org/10.1163/156852503770735952