Team

Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Koen De Temmerman

Research interests ancient fiction, biography, hagiography, ancient rhetoric, physiognomy, narratology, literary theory, character(ization) URL Personal Website Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography Academia.edu

Postdoctoral team members

Dr. Evelien Bracke

Project Novel Echoes Research interests Greek mythology, Greek epic, The concept of metis, Inclusivity of Classics, The impact of Classics learning URL Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography

Dr. Nicolò D’Alconzo

Project Novel Echoes Research interests ancient Greek novels, fiction, ekphrasis, ancient reception of novels URL Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography

Dr. Simon Ford

Project Novel Echoes Research interests Syriac Literature and Christianity, Ecclesiastical History, hagiography, Canon Law, Social and Cultural History of the Late Antique Near East, Samaritan Studies URL Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography

Dr. Claire Rachel Jackson

Project Novel Echoes Research interests ancient fiction, ancient Greek novels, theory of fiction, reception of ancient novels in Late Antiquity and Byzantium URL Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography Academia.edu

Dr. Mara Nicosia

Project Novel Echoes Research interests Aramaic studies, Reception of Greek literature and philosophy in the Near East, Syriac rhetoric, Near Eastern narratives, Greek into Syriac, Contact linguistics URL Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography Academia.edu

Dr. Tine Scheijnen

Project “The Romance between Greece and the West.” Heroes and Heroines in Middle-English medieval narrative Research interests Greek and Latin epic from Homer to imperial times, western romance, heroic characterization, Troy narratives URL Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography Academia.edu

Dr. Ellen Söderblom Saarela

Project Novel Echoes Research interests medieval romances, the novelistic tradition, reception studies, narratology, theories of love and gender, Byzantine literature URL Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography

Dr. Julie Van Pelt

Project Miracle or Magic? The Figure of the ‘Magos’ in Byzantine Hagiography Research interests literary theory, hagiography, ancient fiction, theory of fiction, New Historicism, Byzantine literature URL Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography Academia.edu

PhD students

Benjamin De Vos

Project Reception of Sophistic and Platonic philosophy in the Pseudo-Clementine literature Research interests First and Second Sophistic, early Christian and apologetic literature, Classical and Hellenistic philosophy, literary theory URL Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography Academia.edu

Olivier Demerre

Project Latin to Greek. The latinity of the ancient Greek love novel Research interests ancient fiction, Greek and Latin interactions, Greek and Latin novels, Latin elegy URL Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography Academia.edu

Visiting Scholars

David Cohen

Project Idiolekt in den Elektra-Tragödien von Aischylos, Sophokles und Euripides. Research interests dialects, idiolects, Greek language, translation studies in ancient languages URL Personal Website

Nina Ogrowsky

Project The spaces of the Ancient Greek Novel. Research interests literary theory, narratology, conceptual metaphor theory, intertextuality, space, ancient Novel, Greek Imperial literature URL Personal Page Academia.edu

Former team members

Dr. Annelies Bossu

Project Quick-witted women: literary studies of female characters in the Latin post-Nicene passions of the martyrs (2010-14) (sup. Prof. D. Praet; co-sup. Prof. K. De Temmerman) (FWO)

Dr. Ghazzal Dabiri

Project Farid al-Din ‘Attar and the Writing of Sufi Saints Lives: Between Genre, Audience Milieu, and Literature (2015-18) (ERC Novel Saints)

Dr. Annunziata Di Rienzo

Project Holiness and Power in Syriac Hagiographic Collections (2015-2019) (co-Supervisor Dr F. Ruani) (BOF UGent/La Sapienza, Rome)

Dr. Peter Newey

Project Φιλοτιμότατος καì φιλοδοξότατος: Titus Quinctius Flamininus, the man and his portrayal by Plutarch (2007-12) (sup. Prof. K. Demoen; co-sup. Prof. K. De Temmerman)

Dr. Thierry Oppeneer

Project The Rhetoric of Democracy. Elites and Popular Power in Second Sophistic Literature (2014-2018)

Kirsten Ricquier

Project Novel Saints in Byzantine hagiography (2017-18) (ERC Novel Saints)

Dr. Flavia Ruani

Project Critical edition and translation of the Syriac Martyrdom of Saba and Life of Saba (2014-2018)

Dr. Klazina Staat

Project In Good Faith. Belief and Credibility in Late Antique Latin Hagiographical Narratives of Chaste Spouses (2014-2018)

Student helpers

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)

Associated members

Prof. Dr. Alberto Camplani (La Sapienza – University of Rome)

Prof. Dr. Kristoffel Demoen (Ghent University)

Prof. Dr. Marco Formisano (Ghent University)

Prof. Dr. John Morgan (Swansea University)

Prof. Dr. Danny Praet (Ghent University)

Prof. Dr. Michael Williams (Maynooth University)