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Trevor Evans is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University. He earned a BA Honours from the University of New England in 1992, focusing on ancient languages including Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, and a PhD from the University of Sydney in 1998 with a thesis on the verbal system in the Greek Pentateuch supervised by John A.L. Lee. His academic career commenced at Macquarie University as Research Officer from 1998 to 2001 and Macquarie University Research Fellow from 2001 to 2004. He then served as Assistant Editor for the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2007 and as Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford, from 2005 to 2007. Returning to Macquarie University in 2007 as Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History (now Department of History and Archaeology), he progressed to Senior Lecturer in 2009 and Associate Professor in 2016. Evans coordinates ancient-language teaching, convenes units in ancient Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, and has directed the Macquarie Ancient Languages School since 2015.

Evans's research focuses on ancient languages, particularly the post-classical history of Greek, Greek and Latin documentary texts such as papyri and inscriptions, the Septuagint, and lexicography, with special attention to the Zenon Archive. His major publications include the monograph Verbal Syntax in the Greek Pentateuch: Natural Greek Usage and Hebrew Interference (Oxford University Press, 2001); edited volumes The Language of the Papyri (with Dirk D. Obbink, Oxford University Press, 2010), Biblical Greek in Context: Studies in Honour of John A. L. Lee (with James K. Aitken, Peeters, 2015), and Koine Greek and the Evidence of Documentary Sources (with Genevieve Young-Evans, 2024); and assistant editorship of fascicules IX–XIII of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2005–2010). He has published extensively on topics including linguistic variation in the Zenon Archive, Septuagint syntax, and papyrological lexicography. Evans was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2021, held a Polonsky Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 2018, and is recognized for methodological innovation in ancient cultures.