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 Anna Athanasopoulou

Project Deep into Nature: The Ecological Self in Imperial Greek Literature and Art Research interests Imperial Greek literature; Art and Text Theories; Ancient and modern ecphrastic writing; embodied, sensory, and ecological approaches to Classics, Classical reception 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 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

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 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

Ms Camila De Moura (joint PhD with the University of São Paulo)

Project Narrative Patterns in the Lives of Ancient Greek Poets Research interests ancient Greek biography, Lives of poets, ancient fiction, literary theory, ancient Greek theatre URL UGent Bibliography https://usp-br.academia.edu/CamiladeMoura

Ms Emma Huig

Project The Holy Romance. Characterization and concepts of fiction in Italo-Greek hagiography Research interests literary theory, narratology, hagiography, Byzantine literature, ancient and Byzantine Greek fiction URL UGent Bibliography Academia.edu

Anne Lanckriet

Project Courting the Past: (Re)constructing Courtesans in the Second Sophistic Research interests Gender and Sexuality in Greek literature, Sex work in Greek Antiquity, Characterization, Queer approaches to Classics, Vulnerability URL Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography

Ms Merel Van Nieuwerburgh

Project The narrative functions of animals in Severan Greek literature Research interests animal studies, ancient zoology, Second Sophistic, ancient biography, history of science, characterization URL Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Research Portal UGent Bibliography

Visiting Scholars and Students

Ms Maria Navarro López (Universitat de Barcelona)

Project The image of the intellectual woman in ancient Greece. An approach from narratology and the analysis of biographical topics Research interests Gender studies, Greek biography, ancient scholarship, characterization, ancient fiction and narrative URL Academia.edu Universitat de Barcelona

Mr Luca Licitra (Bern University)

Project The Jewish and Christian Samuel: Borrowings, Demarcations, Entanglements Research interests Reception studies, Greek hagiography, Patristics URL Unibe

Mr Carlos Amado Román

Project A commentary on Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon (Books 3 and 4) Research interests ancient Greek novels, influence of progymnasmata and declamation on Imperial Greek literature, narratology, literary theory URL Academia.edu

Dr 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

Prof. Dr Megan Moore

 

Prof. Dr Saiichiro Nakatani († 1972-2023)

Project The reception of the ancient Greek novel from late antiquity to early modern Europe Research interests ancient novel, narrative technique, classical reception, history of prose fiction, translation, bibliography URL Researchmap

 

Dr 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

Dr Christodoulos Papavarnavas

Project Spaces that Matter: Enclosed and Secluded Places in Early and Middle Byzantine Hagiography Research interests late antique and Byzantine literature (hagiography, novels/romances, and historiography), literary theory, space, gender, emotions, narratology URL 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 (sup. Prof. D. Praet; co-sup. Prof. K. De Temmerman) (FWO, 2010-2014)

Dr Evelien Bracke

Project Novel Echoes

Dr Ghazzal Dabiri

Project Farid al-Din ‘Attar and the Writing of Sufi Saints Lives: Between Genre, Audience Milieu, and Literature (ERC Novel Saints, 2015-2018)

Dr Olivier Demerre Project  Nothing but the Truth? Rhetoric and fictionality in the Greek and Latin novels (FWO, 2022-2025) Dr Annunziata Di Rienzo

Project Holiness and Power in Syriac Hagiographic Collections (BOF UGent/La Sapienza, Rome, 2015-2019)

Dr Simon Ford

Project Erotic Love and Desire in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography (ERC Novel Echoes, 2020-2022)

Dr Peter Newey

Project 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)

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

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 (ERC Novel Saints, 2017-2018)

Dr Flavia Ruani

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

Dr Tine Scheijnen

Project “The Romance between Greece and the West.” Heroes and Heroines in Middle-English medieval narrative

Dr Ellen Söderblom Saarela

Project Late antique and medieval receptions of ancient novels in western vernaculars (ERC Novel Echoes, 2020-2022)

 

Dr Klazina Staat

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

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)