Stephanie Roberta West FBA (née Pickard; 1 December 1937) is a British classical scholar specialising in the study of Homer, Herodotus, and Lycophron.
[2] She studied Literae humaniores (i.e. classics) at Somerville College, Oxford, achieving first class honours in mods in 1958 and in greats in 1960.
[1] She remained at Somerville to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree, which she completed in 1964.
[1] Her doctoral thesis was titled "The Ptolemaic papyri of Homer", and was supervised by Professor Hugh Lloyd-Jones.
The gallery was established in 2014 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first female fellows elected to the college.