# Irene Peirano Garrison Interim Chair 2026–27 Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature ![Irene Peirano Garrison](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2026-05/Irene%20Peirano%20Garrison%20headshot.jpg?h=757759b8&itok=15ymwpOQ) location\_on Boylston 231 smartphone [617.495.5216](tel:617.495.5216) email laptop\_windows [Website](https://peiranogarrison.scholars.harvard.edu/) laptop\_windows [Academia.edu](https://harvard.academia.edu/IrenePeiranoGarrison) laptop\_windows [Office Hours](https://calendly.com/irene-peirano-garrison/15min) Research interests: Latin poetry, the history of rhetoric and ancient literary criticism, the history of classical scholarship and classical pedagogy Download 3 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=179731&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=179731&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=179731&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=179731&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=179731&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=179731&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=179731&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=ris) Garrison, Irene Peirano. 2019. *[Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry](/publication/persuasion-rhetoric-and-roman-poetry)*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316219355. Garrison, Irene Peirano. 2019. *[Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry](/publication/persuasion-rhetoric-and-roman-poetry)*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316219355. Curtis, Lauren, and Irene Peirano Garrison, eds. 2021. *[The Lives of Latin Texts: Papers Presented to Richard J. Tarrant](/publications/lives-latin-texts-papers-presented-richard-j-tarrant)*. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Curtis, Lauren, and Irene Peirano Garrison, eds. 2021. *[The Lives of Latin Texts: Papers Presented to Richard J. Tarrant](/publications/lives-latin-texts-papers-presented-richard-j-tarrant)*. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674260481&content=toc) The papers in this volume are based on a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard Tarrant, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, on the occasion of his retirement. The breadth of authors... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674260481&content=toc) Garrison, Irene Peirano. 2012. *[The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake: Latin Pseudepigrapha in Context](/publication/rhetoric-roman-fake-latin-pseudepigrapha-context)*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511732331. Garrison, Irene Peirano. 2012. *[The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake: Latin Pseudepigrapha in Context](/publication/rhetoric-roman-fake-latin-pseudepigrapha-context)*. 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