Caroline Vout (born 1972) is a British classicist and art historian. she is a Professor in classics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ's College. In 2021 she became Director of the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge.Dr Caroline Vout at Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Accessed 6 February 2016
Career Vout was born in Durham.Vout 2012: 1 She read Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1995, before taking a master's degree in Roman and Byzantine Art at the Courtauld Institute.From 'About the author', Vout: 2006 She then returned to Cambridge for her doctorate, which was supervised by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard.
Upon finishing her doctorate she lectured at the Universities of Bristol and Nottingham until being appointed to as a fellow of Christ's College in 2006.Dr Caroline Vout at website of Christ's College, Cambridge. Accessed 6 February 2016
She curated an exhibition on Antinous at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and is on the academic advisory panel for the department of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum.Greek and Roman Gallery Project Members at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Accessed 6 February 2016 She has written for The Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian,"The shock of the old: what the sculpture of Pan reveals about sex and the Romans". The Guardian, 24 March 2013. Accessed 6 February 2016 and appeared on the 2011 BBC Four documentary Fig Leaf: The Biggest Cover-Up In History and on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.
Books Antinous: the Face of the Antique. Leeds: Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, 2006. Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. The Hills of Rome: Signature of an Eternal City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome. London: British Museum Press, 2013 Epic Visions: Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception. (co-edited with Helen Lovatt). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Exposed: the Greek and Roman Body. London: Profile Books, 2022.
Awards The Art Book Award (awarded by the Association of Art Historians) for Antinous; 2008.Art History Newsletter February 2008 (Not available online to non-members.) Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2008Philip Leverhulme Prizewinners 2008 . Leverhulme Trust, 2008. Accessed 6 February 2016 Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London
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