Emily Joanna Gowers, FBA (née Thomas; born 27 September 1963) is a British classical scholar.

Gowers remained in Cambridge for her PhD with a dissertation entitled The representation of food in Roman literature in 1990 for which she was awarded the Hare Prize.

[2] From 1991 to 1993, Gowers was a lecturer in Latin at University College, London followed by a period as an honorary research fellow at the same institution.

Her 1993 publication, The Loaded Table, was awarded the Premio Langhe Ceretto (per la cultura del cibo) in 1994[5] and translated into Italian in 1996.

[1][7] She was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2014–16) for her project Maecenas: Transformations of an Augustan Patron.

[16] Gowers was the Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 2022, the eleventh woman to be invited to hold the position.