Victoria Moul is a British literary critic, scholar, poet and translator living in Paris.

About Victoria

I have held a series of academic posts in the UK in departments of English (at Queen’s College, Oxford) and Classics (at Cambridge and King’s College London). Most recently I was Professor of Early Modern Latin and English at University College London (until 2024). I have resigned from my professorship in order to pursue a freelance career as a writer, editor and translator, as we have settled in Paris. I retain a research affiliation at UCL and also at the Sorbonne, and plan to continue to publish some academic work alongside poetry and criticism for a more general audience.

I have my own substack about poetry and translation, Horace & friends. That’s the best place to get a sense of the range of my interests, from contemporary poetry in French and English, early modern poetry in both these languages as well as Latin, and classical poetry in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit. I write often about well-known figures like Horace and George Herbert, but also about a lot of less familiar material, including new archival research that is not yet published elsewhere. I review regularly for other venues, including the Times Literary Supplement, PN Review, The Dark Horse and The Friday Poem. I also publish poetry and verse translations of my own.

I have made as many of my academic publications as possible freely available on my academia.edu site.