Susanna Morton Braund took the Canada Research Chair in Latin Poetry and its Reception at the University of British Columbia in 2007. Her BA and PhD are from the University of Cambridge; she has taught at the Universities of Exeter, Bristol, and London in the UK; and at Stanford and Yale Universities. Prof. Braund has published extensively on Roman satire and Latin epic poetry. Her 1992 translation (Oxford Worlds Classics series) of Lucans Civil War has sold 11,000 copies to date.