My work focuses on the cultural history of the Roman world, particularly Rome in the late republic and early principate. The complex literary strategies of Roman texts (I have worked particularly on Seneca, Ovid and more recently Cicero) are an intrinsic part of that world’s fabric. I am interested in the ways in which conceptions of gender and other aspects of personal and social identity operate through, and are inflected by, language.

Another important strand in my research has been the reception of antiquity in later centuries, particularly the C19th, and how receptions of antiquity are implicated in strategies of cultural formation and self-construction (I have published on the reception of Rome in Gibbon, in Mme de Stael, T.B.Macaulay, Nathaniel Hawthorne and in C19th guidebooks, particularly the work of Augustus Hare).

Edwards, Catharine (2019) Seneca: Selected letters. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521460118.
Edwards, Catharine, ed. (2008) Lives of the Caesars. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199537563.
Edwards, Catharine, ed. (2007) Roman presences: receptions of Rome in European culture, 1789-1945. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521036177.
Edwards, Catharine (2007) Death in ancient Rome. London, UK: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300112085.
Edwards, Catharine and woolf, G., eds. (2006) Rome the cosmopolis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521030113.
Edwards, Catharine (2002) The politics of immorality in ancient Rome. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521893893.
Liversidge, M. and Edwards, Catharine, eds. (1996) Imagining Rome: British artists and Rome in the nineteenth century. London, UK: Merrell Holberton Publishers. ISBN 9781858940298.
Edwards, Catharine (1996) Writing Rome: textual approaches to the city. Roman Literature and its Contexts. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521559522.