From 1951 to 1979 Reynolds was Director of Studies in Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge and from 1957 to 1983 she was lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge.[5] From 1983 to 1984 she was a Reader in the Epigraphy of the Roman World at the University of Cambridge and she remains an honorary fellow of Newnham College.[6] In 1982 she was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy.[5]