Julia Haig Gaisser

[3] Being awarded a scholarship by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission of London, Julia Haig Gaisser studied at the University of Edinburgh where she obtained her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Arthur James Beattie, presenting the thesis "A structural analysis of the digressions in the Iliad and the Odyssey".

It has been reviewed as "a scholarly and yet eminently readable book, a worthy complement to Catullan studies, shedding light on the historical world of the humanists, and how their reading of Catullus would influence that of later generations".

It has been praised as "encouraging the reader to see Catullus through the eyes of his translators", and "it makes the book a fascinating reading that helps filling the void in accessible literature on the reception of the classics".

[2] Oxford Readings in Catullus (2007) is an anthology of twenty-eight papers selected for their "intrinsic interest and importance", accompanied by her own introduction on the main themes of Catullian criticism from 1950 to 2000.

[11] It has been defined as providing "an answer to the need for an undergraduate critical text of the current scholarship in a concise and attractive form", and of being "consistently clear, well informed, and nicely judicious on the many disputed points".