Principal Investigator
Prof. Dr Koen De Temmerman
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ancient fiction, biography, hagiography, ancient rhetoric, physiognomy, narratology, literary theory, character(ization) |
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Postdoctoral team members
Dr Anna Athanasopoulou
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Deep into Nature: The Ecological Self in Imperial Greek Literature and Art |
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Imperial Greek literature; Art and Text Theories; Ancient and modern ecphrastic writing; embodied, sensory, and ecological approaches to Classics, Classical reception |
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Dr Nicolò D’Alconzo
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Novel Echoes |
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ancient Greek novels, fiction, ekphrasis, ancient reception of novels |
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Dr Benjamin De Vos
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Reception of Sophistic and Platonic philosophy in the Pseudo-Clementine literature |
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First and Second Sophistic, early Christian and apologetic literature, Classical and Hellenistic philosophy, literary theory |
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Dr Claire Rachel Jackson
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Novel Echoes |
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ancient fiction, ancient Greek novels, theory of fiction, reception of ancient novels in Late Antiquity and Byzantium |
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Dr Julie Van Pelt
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Miracle or Magic? The Figure of the ‘Magos’ in Byzantine Hagiography |
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literary theory, hagiography, ancient fiction, theory of fiction, New Historicism, Byzantine literature |
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PhD students
Ms Camila De Moura (joint PhD with the University of São Paulo)
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Narrative Patterns in the Lives of Ancient Greek Poets
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ancient Greek biography, Lives of poets, ancient fiction, literary theory, ancient Greek theatre |
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Ms Emma Huig
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The Holy Romance. Characterization and concepts of fiction in Italo-Greek hagiography
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literary theory, narratology, hagiography, Byzantine literature, ancient and Byzantine Greek fiction |
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Anne Lanckriet
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Courting the Past: (Re)constructing Courtesans in the Second Sophistic |
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Gender and Sexuality in Greek literature, Sex work in Greek Antiquity, Characterization, Queer approaches to Classics, Vulnerability |
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- UGent Bibliography
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Visiting Scholars and Students
Mr Carlos Amado Román
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A commentary on Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon (Books 3 and 4) |
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ancient Greek novels, influence of progymnasmata and declamation on Imperial Greek literature, narratology, literary theory |
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Dr David Cohen
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Idiolekt in den Elektra-Tragödien von Aischylos, Sophokles und Euripides. |
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dialects, idiolects, Greek language, translation studies in ancient languages |
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Dr Megan Moore
Prof. Dr Saiichiro Nakatani († 1972-2023)
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The reception of the ancient Greek novel from late antiquity to early modern Europe |
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ancient novel, narrative technique, classical reception, history of prose fiction, translation, bibliography |
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Dr Nina Ogrowsky
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The spaces of the Ancient Greek Novel. |
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literary theory, narratology, conceptual metaphor theory, intertextuality, space, ancient Novel, Greek Imperial literature |
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Dr Christodoulos Papavarnavas
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Spaces that Matter: Enclosed and Secluded Places in Early and Middle Byzantine Hagiography |
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late antique and Byzantine literature (hagiography, novels/romances, and historiography), literary theory, space, gender, emotions, narratology |
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Former team members
Dr Annelies Bossu
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Quick-witted women: literary studies of female characters in the Latin post-Nicene passions of the martyrs (sup. Prof. D. Praet; co-sup. Prof. K. De Temmerman) (FWO, 2010-2014) |
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Dr Ghazzal Dabiri
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Farid al-Din ‘Attar and the Writing of Sufi Saints Lives: Between Genre, Audience Milieu, and Literature (ERC Novel Saints, 2015-2018) |
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Dr Olivier Demerre
Project Nothing but the Truth? Rhetoric and fictionality in the Greek and Latin novels (FWO, 2022-2025)
Dr Annunziata Di Rienzo
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Holiness and Power in Syriac Hagiographic Collections (BOF UGent/La Sapienza, Rome, 2015-2019) |
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Dr Simon Ford
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Erotic Love and Desire in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography (ERC Novel Echoes, 2020-2022) |
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Dr Peter Newey
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Φιλοτιμότατος καì φιλοδοξότατος: Titus Quinctius Flamininus, the man and his portrayal by Plutarch (sup. Prof. K. Demoen; co-sup. Prof. K. De Temmerman) (2007-2012) |
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Dr Mara Nicosia
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Novel Echoes |
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Aramaic studies, Reception of Greek literature and philosophy in the Near East, Syriac rhetoric, Near Eastern narratives, Greek into Syriac, Contact linguistics |
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Dr Thierry Oppeneer
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The Rhetoric of Democracy. Elites and Popular Power in Second Sophistic Literature (2014-2018) |
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Kirsten Ricquier
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Novel Saints in Byzantine hagiography (ERC Novel Saints, 2017-2018) |
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Dr Flavia Ruani
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Critical edition and translation of the Syriac Martyrdom of Saba and Life of Saba (ERC Novel Saints, 2014-2018) |
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Dr Tine Scheijnen
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“The Romance between Greece and the West.” Heroes and Heroines in Middle-English medieval narrative |
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Dr Ellen Söderblom Saarela
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Late antique and medieval receptions of ancient novels in western vernaculars (ERC Novel Echoes, 2020-2022) |
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Dr Klazina Staat
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In Good Faith. Belief and Credibility in Late Antique Latin Hagiographical Narratives of Chaste Spouses (ERC Novel Saints, 2014-2018) |
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Student helpers
Merel Van Nieuwerburgh (2023)
Anne Lanckriet (2022-2023)
Sien Denduyver (2022-2023)
Elisabeth Callewaert (2022-2023)
Mathijs Clement (2021-2022, 2022-2023)
Marthe Nemegeer (2021-2022)
Lotte Van Olmen (2017-2018)
Emma Vanden Berghe (2016-2017)
Interns
Pauline De Groote (2014-2015)
Lotte Van Olmen (2017-2018)
Robbe Vande Velde (2018-2019)