| Birth Date: | 31 October 1960 |
| Education: | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Thesis Title: | A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10 |
| Thesis Year: | 1987 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | R. G. M. Nisbet |
| Discipline: | Classics |
| Workplaces: | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Main Interests: | Horace Vergil |
Stephen Harrison (born 31 October 1960) is a British classicist and a professor of Latin at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the poetry of Virgil and Horace.
Having read Classics at Balliol College, Harrison has taught Latin literature at the University of Oxford since 1987.[1] In addition, he has been an occasional visiting professor at the universities of Copenhagen and Trondheim. While his research focuses on the poetry of Virgil and Horace, he has also written on the reception of classical literature and the Roman novel. He is a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[2]
In 2022 he was bestowed an honorary doctorate from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.[3]