[1] Langlands studied at the University of Cambridge and wrote her PhD dissertation on Valerius Maximus at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge funded by the British Academy and examined by Susanna Morton Braund.

[2][3] Langlands moved to the University of Exeter in 1998 to teach in the Department of Classics.

[5] Langlands was a visiting faculty member (2014/15) at UCLA Department of Classics.

[4] She was promoted to a full Professorship at Exeter in 2017 and delivered her Inaugural Lecture, entitled 'Stories that Slice, Scald and Bounce: Why Roman Exempla Matter' on 21 January 2019.

More recently, she has focused on gender and sexuality in the ancient world generally.