Patricia O'Sullivan is an Irish-born historian and translator specializing in the politics and culture of early Imperial Rome. Raised in Cork, she studied Classics at Trinity College Dublin and completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford on Julio-Claudian court networks and epigraphy. After research fellowships at the British School at Rome and the University of Edinburgh, she taught ancient history at University College Dublin and worked as a consultant on Latin inscriptions for museum collections in Dublin, Rome, and London. Her essays have appeared in academic journals and public history venues, and her translations of Senecan prose are used by university courses across Europe and North America. She divides her time between Dublin and Rome, where she continues archival work with papyri and epigraphic databases.
