Select academic curriculumLund University: B.A. 1964; M.A. 1968; PhD 1972.
Lund University: Reader in Greek, 1972-85; Lecturer in Greek, 1985-96. University of Gothenburg: Professor of Greek, 1997-2004.
Harvard University, USA Fellow of The Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C. (1973/74).
University of Edinburgh, UK Charles Gordon Mackay Lecturer (1979).
Lund University The New Society of Letters (1980).
The Gleerup Prize, The New Society of Letters, Lund University (1992). Lund University Student Union Prize for Pedagogical Excellence (1995).
Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (1991-93).
Public lectures at universities in Great Britain and the USA.
Numerous articles on Greek philology and medieval and Renaissance book history published in international periodicals 1975-2009
Areas of Research Greek archaic epic and lyric poetry; Rhetoric; Hellenistic poetry; Renaissance Greek scholarship; Renaissance Greek printing; Medieval and Renaissance bibliopegy; Analytical bibliography.
Research in progress The Kallierges Pindar: A case study in Renaissance Greek scholarship and printing.
Recent bibliography (2002- )
”Four Epigrams in the Greek Anthology: AP 7.365, 7, 651, 6.276 and 7.79”, Eranos 100 (2002), 23-37.
”To Bee or Not To Bee? Antipater AP 7.34: A Mistaken Interpretation”, Eranos 100 (2002), 128-136.
“A Mistaken Attribution”, The Book Collector 51 (2002), 130-131.
”The Anonymous Rome 1522 Chrysoloras: A Newly Discovered Greek Press”, PBSA 97 (2003), 5-42.
”In my End is my Beginning: Verbal Echoes in Pindar’s 9th Pythian”, Studia Palaeophilologica, ed. Stephen M. Bay (Champaign, IL: Stipes, 2004), 71-78.
“The 1515 Kallierges Pindar: A First Report”, S?????µata (Syncharmata) ed. O. Strid, D. Searby & T. Hållander, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Graeca Upsaliensia 21, Uppsala 2006.
“Pindar, Pythian 8.95-6: An Unrecognized Problem”, Hermes 136 (2008), 383-90.
“Pindaros på svenska: En seriös granskning av Ingvar Björkesons översättning”, Text. Svensk Tidskrift för Bibliografi (Uppsala) 7:2 (2009), 63-132.
(See also Contemporary Authors, Gale Research Inc., vol. 139. pp. 136-7: Nationalencyklopedin, Supplement 1, 2000, p. 584.)