Office hours
Monday 11:00–12:00h. No advance notification required, but please do not come when you are ill. First office hour autumn 2024: Monday 19 August 2024.
Academic interests
- Genres: Greek epic, tragedy, lyric poetry, the novel, Second Sophistic prose and poetry, mythology and mythography (especially Herakles), rhetoric.
- Methods/approaches: intertextuality, transtextuality, narratology, cognitive theory.
- Reception: antiquity in English literature and popular culture, transfer of knowledge.
Education
- 2015: Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education at UiO
- 2013: BA at the University of Zurich (English)
- 2010: High school teaching diploma at the University of Zurich
- 2008: PhD at the University of Zurich
- 2006–07: Visiting doctoral student at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
- 2005: Lizentiat (BA/MA) at the University of Zurich (Greek, Latin, Musicology)
Employment history and offices
- 2021–24: Representative of the permanent academic staff at the Department Board of IFIKK
- 2021–22: Deputy representative of the permanent academic staff at the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Humanities
- 2019–23: President of the Nasjonalt fagorgan for gresk og latin
- 2019–20: PhD Leader at IFIKK
- 2018–20: Head of Subject in Classics at IFIKK
- 2016–now: Professor of Greek at UiO
- 2014–15: Associate Professor of Greek at UiO
- 2012–13: Postdoc researcher at the University of Zurich
- 2009–14: High school teacher in Zurich
- 2005–12: Research assistant and lecturer at the University of Zurich
- 2002–06: High school teacher in Zurich
- With Manuel Baumbach: “An Introduction to Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica.” In: Baumbach/Bär (2007): 1–26.
- “Quintus Smyrnaeus und die Tradition des epischen Musenanrufs.” In: Baumbach/Bär (2007): 29–64.
- With Manuel Baumbach: “A Short Introduction to the Ancient Epyllion.” In: Baumbach/Bär (2012): ix–xvi.
- “‘Museum of Words’: Christodorus, the Art of Ekphrasis and the Epyllic Genre.” In: Baumbach/Bär (2012): 447–471.
- “Odysseus’ Letter to Calypso in Lucian’s Verae Historiae.” In: Owen Hodkinson / Patricia A. Rosenmeyer / Evelien Bracke (eds.), Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. Leiden / Boston 2013 (Mnemosyne Suppl. 359), 221–236.
- With Manuel Baumbach: “The Epic Cycle and imperial Greek epic.” In: Marco Fantuzzi / Christos Tsagalis (eds.), The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception:
A Companion. Cambridge 2015, 604–622.
- Commentary on poems AB 57–61, in: Bernd Seidensticker / Adrian Stähli / Antje Wessels (eds.), Der Neue Poseidipp: Text – Übersetzung – Kommentar. Darmstadt 2015, 229–246.
- “Reading Homer, Writing Troy: Intertextuality and Narrativity of the Gods and the Divine in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica.” In: James J. Clauss / Martine P. Cuypers / Ahuvia Kahane (eds.), The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry: From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond. Stuttgart 2016 (PAwB 56), 215–230.
- “Diktys und Dares vor dem Hintergrund des zweitsophistischen Homerrevisionismus.” In: Graziana Brescia / Mario Lentano / Giampiero Scafoglio / Valentina Zanusso (eds.), Revival and Revision of the Trojan Myth: Studies on Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2018 (Spudasmata 177), 151–176.
- With Emily Hauser: “Introduction.” In: Bär/Hauser (2019): 1–12, notes 187–188, references 218–219.
- “The Elizabethan Epyllion: From Constructed Classical Genre to Twentieth-Century Genre Propre.” In: Bär/Hauser (2019): 138–150, notes 206–207, references 238–240.
- With Elisabeth Schedel: “Epic fragments.” In: Christiane Reitz / Simone Finkmann (eds.), Structures of Epic Poetry. Vol. 1: Foundations. Berlin / Boston 2019, 317–355.
- “Herakles and the Panhellenic Idea in Ancient Greek Culture.” In: Serpil Ahmetkocaoğlu et al. (eds.), II. International Symposium on Mythology. 8–10 June 2021, Ardahan. Proceedings Book. Ardahan 2021, 643–656.
- “Quintus of Smyrna.” In: Mathieu de Bakker / Irene J.F. de Jong (eds.), Speech in Ancient Greek Literature. Leiden / Boston 2021 (SAGN 5), 154–171.
- With Emma Greensmith & Leyla Ozbek: “Introduction: Going to Rome, Returning to Troy.” In: Bär/Greensmith/Ozbek (2022): 1–13.
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“Heracles’ Emotions in Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica.” In: Mathieu de Bakker / Baukje van den Berg / Jacqueline J.H. Klooster (eds.), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong. Leiden / Boston 2022 (Mnemosyne Suppl. 451), 471–478.
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“Zwei Reden und drei Frauen: Zu den Sprecherinnen des Frauenredepaars bei Quintus Smyrnaeus (Posthomerica 1,403–476).” In: Lamers/Bär (2022): 55–68.
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“Greek and Roman Epigrammatists in the Later Imperial Period: Ausonius and Palladas in Dialogue with the Classical Past.” In: Berenice Verhelst / Tine Scheijnen (eds.), Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition, and Context. Cambridge 2022, 31–50.
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“Sinon and Laocoon in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica: A Rewriting and De-Romanisation of Vergil’s Aeneid?” In: Katerina Carvounis / Sophia Papaioannou / Giampiero Scafoglio (eds.), Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition: Further Explorations. Berlin / Boston 2022, 55–74.
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“Der Teufel trägt Gucci? Die Akropolis von Athen als Imaginationsort von Demokratie, Hochkultur und Panhellenismus.” In: Camille Semenzato / Lucius Hartmann (eds.), Von der Antike begeistert! Philologie, Philosophie, Religion und Politik durch drei Jahrtausende: Festschrift für Christoph Riedweg. Basel 2023, 211–222.
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“Heracles and Hesione in the Iliad.” In: Christos Tsagalis (ed.), Heracles in Early Greek Epic. Leiden / Boston 2024, 146–163.
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With Andriana Domouzi: “Introduction: Greek and Roman Authors Imagining Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Epic Poetry.” In: Domouzi/Bär (2024): 1–11.
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“The Study of Transtextual Characters in Homeric Sequels: A Methodological Manifesto.” In: Diane Cuny / Arnaud Perrot (eds.), Suites d’Homère de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance. Turnhout 2024, 83–93 (in press).