Dr Emily Hauser is an award-winning ancient historian, author and broadcaster, and is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. She was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, where she took a double first with distinction and won the prestigious Chancellor’s Medal for Classical Proficiency, and received her PhD from Yale University in 2017; from 2017–2018 she was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. She has held an academic post at the University of Exeter since 2018.

Emily’s publications analyse and rework the women of Greek myth, through the long history of their reception both as carriers of meaning and as political and cultural tools. Her debut public history book, Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, through the Women Written Out Of It (Penguin Random House 2025), re-examines the women of Homer’s epics by taking a historical turn to the epigraphic evidence and archaeology of Late Bronze Age women as a way to re-centre the women of history against the tales told by men. It was a Times bestseller, has been translated into multiple languages and has garnered international critical acclaim: Amanda Foreman called it “one of the best non-fiction books to have been published in the past decade”.

Emily is also co-editor, with Helena Taylor, of two volumes on women’s receptions of the classical world (both Bloomsbury 2025): the first, Women Creating Classics, examines the intellectual history of the construction of classicism by exploring women’s long engagement with reshaping ancient histories and texts, while the second, Women Re-Creating Classics, brings together writers and academics to deconstruct contemporary conversations around re-creating the past. She has also authored How Women Became Poets (Princeton 2023), a gender history of literary authority, and examines how the social and cultural concept of gender is built through ancient texts. As a fiction writer, Emily wrote a trilogy of acclaimed novels reworking the women of Greek myth, published 2016–2018 with Penguin Random House.

Emily has been featured on several BBC Radio shows including BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, Times Radio, The Guardian and the Independent; she appears on podcasts globally and speaks at major literary and history festivals across the UK, and will be featuring on several upcoming documentaries. Emily’s books have been published and translated across the world, listed among Waterstones’ Best Books of 2025 and selected as Choice Academic Book of the Year.