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Susan Ford Wiltshire is an American Classical Scholar, poet, and essayist. Her academic work focuses on Latin poetry, particularly that of Virgil, and Classical Reception Studies, particularly in the early United States and the American South. President Bill Clinton appointed Wiltshire to the advisory council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, on which she served from 1997–2002.

Education
Wiltshire received her Ph.D. in Greek and Latin from Columbia University in 1967. Her doctoral thesis was entitled "Poetry in the Consolatio Philosophiae of Boethius." Wiltshire received a master's degree from Columbia in 1964 and her BA in Latin from the University of Texas, Austin in 1963.

Career
Wiltshire taught Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for two years before becoming the director of the Honors Program and Assistant Professor of English at Fisk University in 1969. In 1971 she became Assistant Professor of Classics at Vanderbilt University, where she became Full Professor in 1989. She retired in 2007. Besides serving on the advisory Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Wiltshire received numerous awards for her teaching and service at Vanderbilt and an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Kenyon College in 1998.

Wiltshire has written three academic monographs, a memoir of her brother's AIDS diagnosis and eventual death, and several books of essays, fiction, and poems. Her book Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights traced the influence of Greek and Roman civic ideals on the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution (1992). Classical Nashville: Athens of the South (1996), which Wiltshire co-authored with Christine Kreyling, Wesley Paine, and Charles W. Waterfield, Jr. and published for the bicentennial of the state of Tennessee, surveys the influence of Classical architecture on many of Nashville's buildings, such as the War Memorial Auditorium and that city's full-scale replica of the Parthenon.