Kathleen M. Coleman FBA is an academic and writer who is the James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard University.
Her research interests include Latin literature, history and culture in the early Roman Empire, and arena spectacles.
In 2005 she was awarded the Joseph R. Levenson Teaching Prize for Senior Faculty by the Undergraduate Council of Harvard College, and in 2011 she served as president of the American Philological Association (now the Society for Classical Studies).
[citation needed] Due to her extensive knowledge of gladiatorial combat and its history, she acted as Chief Academic Consultant on the script of Ridley Scott's Gladiator.
[2] Professor Coleman purportedly found her work as a historical consultant to have had such little effect that she asked to be listed in the credits without any mention of her function.