William J. Dominik (born ) is an American-Australian scholar of Classical Studies. He is presently Visiting Professor and Integrated Researcher of Classical Studies at the University of Lisbon and Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Otago. Life Dominik is the son of university professors of classical music and spent his childhood in a number of states in the USA. After studying Classics at the University of Durham in 1973-1974 and completing his student teaching at the American School Foundation of Mexico City in 1975, he earned a BA in Classics and English from the University of the Pacific and a California Teaching Credential from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing in 1975. Dominik left the USA in 1976 to live overseas for what has amounted to all but a few years. A resident of Sintra, Portugal as of 2018, Dominik possesses dual Australian and American citizenship. He is married to Brazilian artist and former nutritionist Najla Barroso Dominik, a member of the Academy of Letters and Arts of Salvador, Brazil. Career Dominik received his PhD in Classical Studies from Monash University in 1989 after gaining an MA in Classical Humanities from Texas Tech University in 1982. He taught at the University of Natal from 1991 to 2001, where he rose to the rank of Professor and Chair of Classics and Director of the Program in Classics. Dominik moved to the University of Otago as Professor and Chair of Classics in 2002, where he served as Head of the Department of Classics from 2002 to 2009; he was awarded Professor Emeritus status in 2015. An idiosyncratic aspect of Dominik's career has been its wide international dimension. In addition to holding the aforecited posts at the University of Natal and the University of Otago, he has served in recent years as Invited/Visiting Professor, Integrated Researcher, and Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon (2018-2023) and CAPES Visiting Foreign Professor at the Federal University of Bahia (2010, 2016–17). He has also held visiting professorships and other teaching/research positions at Texas Tech University (1981-1982, 1990-1991), Monash University (1985-1988), University of Leeds (1997-1998), University of Cambridge (2000-2001), University of Edinburgh (2006-2007), and the University of Oxford (2013). Research Dominik is the author or editor of several hundred publications (mainly chapters in edited books and journal articles), including sixteen monographs, on Latin literature, especially Roman epic of the Flavian period; Roman rhetoric; the classical