Giuseppe Pezzini is Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature and Fellow and Tutor, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His main area of research is Latin Language and Literature and the Theory of Fiction, ancient and modern. He was trained as a linguist and philologist, and has a special interest in ancient metre, textual criticism, and digital humanities. His most recent books are Pergamon and Rome: Culture, Identity, and Influence (Oxford University Press, 2025) and Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation (Cambridge University Press, 2025).