Gregory Hutchinson

Professor G. O. Hutchinson
Born	Gregory Owen Hutchinson (1957-12-05) 5 December 1957 (age 59)
Nationality	British
Title	Regius Professor of Greek
Spouse(s)	Yvonne Downing (m. 1979)
Children	One

Academic background
Education	City of London School
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Thesis title	"Aeschylus' Septem Contra Thebas: Text and commentary" (1983)
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Sub discipline	Latin literature Ancient Greek literature Latin language Ancient Greek language
Institutions	Christ Church, Oxford Exeter College, Oxford Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford

Gregory Owen Hutchinson (born 5 December 1957), known as G. O. Hutchinson, is a British classicist and academic, specialising in Latin literature, Ancient Greek literature, and Latin and Ancient Greek languages. Since October 2015, he has been the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford, and a Student (IE Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford.

Hutchinson was born on 5 December 1957 in Hackney, London, England. He was educated at the City of London School, an all-boys independent school in the City of London; he had been granted one of the free places funded by the Inner London Education Authority. He studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1979. He remained at Balliol to undertake postgraduate research and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1983. His doctoral thesis was titled "Aeschylus' Septem Contra Thebas: Text and commentary".

From 1981 to 1984, while a postgraduate student, Hutchinson was also a research lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1984, he was elected a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He was then a Tutor in classics at Exeter between 1984 and 2015. From 1996 to 1998, he was also Reader in Classical Literature in the Faculty of Classics. From 1998 to 2015, he was also Professor of Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.