Eleanor Dickey FBA (born 9 April 1967) is an American classicist, linguist, and academic, who specialises in the history of the Latin and Greek languages.
[2] She then moved to England, and studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in 1991.
She then undertook postgraduate research at Merton College, Oxford under the supervision of Anna Morpurgo Davies, and she completed her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1994.
[1][2] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Greek forms of address: a linguistic analysis of selected prose authors".
[2] Having returned to England, Dickey was an associate professor of classics at the University of Exeter between 2007 and 2013.