Victoria RIMELL - Lettere e Filosofia

Victoria RIMELL
Education
2001
University of London (King’s College), PhD
1996
University of Cambridge, MPhil in Classics (Latin Literature)
1995
King’s College, Cambridge: BA in Classics (First Class)
Academic Positions
2007- Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature (tenured), Sapienza University
of Rome
2004-7 Visiting Professor of Classics, Sapienza University of Rome
2002-4 Newton Trust Lecturer in Classics, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and
College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics, Girton and Clare Colleges
2000-2 Stevenson Junior Research Fellow in Classics, University College Oxford
98-2000 Associate Lecturer, Open University
Other Academic Positions
2013- American Academy in Rome: Arts and Humanities Advisor
2012- Honorary Research Associate, University College London, Department of Greek and
Latin
Fields of expertise
• Latin literature and Roman culture: especially Augustan and imperial poetry, Roman
satire, epigram, Senecan tragedy and prose.
• The ancient novel, Greek and Roman.
• Modern philosophical and political thought, cultural studies, gender studies, the history
and theory of literary criticism; traditions of classical scholarship.
• Ancient geography and the poetics of space; ancient and modern architectural theory.
Publications
Authored Books :
(2015) The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire’s Inward Turn. Cambridge University
Press. (c.350pp., publication date: June 2015).
(2008) Martial’s Rome: Empire and the Ideology of Epigram. Cambridge University Press.
Reviews: JRS 100 (Luke Roman), London Review of Books (William Fitzgerald), The
Classical Review 60 (Margot Neger), BMCR (Alexander Lobur), New England Classical
Journal 36.4 (Christopher Whitton), Gnomon 82.1 (Sven Lorenz).
(2006) Ovid’s Lovers: Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination. Cambridge University
Press. (pb 2009)
Reviews: International Journal of the Classical Tradition 17 (Ulrich Schmitzer),
Comparative Literature 186 (Sara Lindheim), JRS 98 (Tom Habinek), Classics Ireland 14
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(Kenneth Rooney), Classical World 101.2 (J.M.Seo), Classical Journal 103.3 (Hunter
Gardner), the Classical Review 57 (Sharon James), BMCR (Jennifer Ingleheart), Times
Literary Supplement (William Fitzgerald), Corriere della Sera (Nadia Fusini), Il Sole 24
Ore (Piero Boitani), New England Classical Journal 34 (Peter Knox), Phoenix 63
(Michaela Janan), Hermathena 185 (Francesca Martelli), South Atlantic Review 71.4
(Goran Stanivukovic).
(2002) Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction. Cambridge University Press. (pb 2007)
Reviews: Phoenix 40 (André Daviault), Museion 4.1 (John McMahon), AJPh 125
(C.Panayotakis), The Classical Review 54 (F.Jones), New England Classical Journal 30
(Max Goldman), Ordia Prima 4 (Marcos Carmignani).
Edited book:
(2007) Seeing Tongues, Hearing Scripts. Orality and Representation in the Ancient Novel.
Ancient Narrative Supplement 5. Gröningen.
Articles and chapters:
1. (2015) ‘In the mirror of time: Seneca and Neronian Culture' in S.Bartsch-Zimmer and
A.Schiesaro (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Seneca. Cambridge, 122-134.
2. (2014) ‘Ripensando il canone: il corpo maschile fra Virgilio e Stazio’ in S.Sarpegno (ed.)
La differenza insegna. La didattica delle discipline in una prospettiva di genere. Rome,
87-94.
3. (2013) ‘(En)closure and rupture: Roman poetry in the arena’ in B.Acosta-Hughes,
A.Kirichenko and F.Grewing (eds) The Door Ajar: False Closure in Greek and Roman
Literature and Art. Heidelberg, 103-127.
4. (2013) 'The best a man can get: grooming Scipio in Seneca Epistle 86' Classical
Philology 108.1: 1-20.
5. (2012) 'The labour of empire: womb and world in Seneca's Medea' in SIFC 105: 211-37.
6. (2009) ‘Letting the page run on: Poetics, rhetoric and noise in the Satyrica’ in I.Repath
and J.Prag (eds) Petronius. A Handbook Duckworth Press, London. 65-81.
7. (2007) ‘Petronius’ encyclopedia: Neronian lessons in learning – the hard way’ in
J.Koenig and T.Whitmarsh (eds) Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire. Cambridge.
108-132.
8. (2006) ‘The good, the bad and the in-between: Touching and mixing in Martial Epigrams
1’ Ordia Prima 5: 89-117.
9. (2005) ‘Introduction', in Rimell (ed) Orality and Representation in the Ancient Novel.
Ancient Narrative Suppl.5. Gröningen. 6-21.
10. (2005) ‘The inward turn: writing, voice and the imperial author in Petronius' in Rimell
(ed) Orality and Representation in the Ancient Novel. Ancient Narrative Suppl.5.
Gröningen. 61-85.
11. (2005) ‘Facing facts: Ovid's Medicamina through the looking glass' in R. Ancona and E.
Greene (eds.) Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry. Johns Hopkins University Press,
Baltimore. 177-205.
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12. (2005) ‘The poor man’s feast: Juvenal’ in K. Freudenburg (ed.) The Cambridge
Companion to Roman Satire, Cambridge. 81-94. (Italian version: 'Giovenale: la fine della
forma satirica' in K.Freudenburg, A.Cucchiarelli e Alessandro Barchiesi (2007) Musa
Pedestre. Storia e interpretazione della satira in Roma antica. Roma. 99-114.
13. (2005) ‘The satiric maze: Petronius, satire and the novel’ in K. Freudenburg (ed.) The
Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire, Cambridge. 160-173.
14. (2003) ‘Stolen thunder: Epic storms in Latin literature’ Omnibus 45: 12-14.
15. (1999) ‘Epistolary fictions: Authorial identity in Ovid, Heroides 15’ Proceedings of the
Cambridge Philological Society 45: 109-135.
Reviews and review articles:
1. (2014), J.Mira Seo, Exemplary Traits: Reading Characterization in Roman Poetry.
Oxford University Press, Classical Philology 109, 274-281.
2. (2013) C.Star, The Empire of the Self. Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and
Petronius.
Baltimore. New England Classical Journal 40.3: 228-231
3. (2012) C.Moussy (ed) Espace et temps en latin. Paris. Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione
Classica 140.1: 184-8.
4. (2011) L.S.Nasrallah Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The SecondCentury Church Amid the Spaces of Empire. Cambridge, and R.A.Talbert Rome’s World.
The Peutinger Map
Reconsidered. Cambridge. Vergilius 57, 130-135.
5. (2011) M.Payne The Animal Part. Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 21.02.2011.
6. (2004) L and P. Watson Martial: Select Epigrams. Hermathena 176: 108-112.
7. (2001) E.Courtney A Companion to Petronius. Hermathena 171: 99-102.
Articles in progress:
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‘Dire straits: Claustrophobic seas from Catullus to Statius’ for forthcoming volume edited
by William Fitzgerald and Efie Spentzou The Production of Space in Latin Literature.
‘Cultural cringe or the creative superiority of self-loathing? Horace’s Ars Poetica’ for
Oxford volume edited by Stephen Harrison and Sebastian Matzner, Complex
Inferiorities: Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature.
‘The ideal of bodily integrity: from Seneca to human rights theory’ for journal
publication.
‘Martial and Tacitus on regime change: transition, survival and the palimpsestic libellus’
for volume edited by Alice Konig and Christopher Whitton, Nervan, Trajanic and
Hadrianic Interactions
Other academic activities
• Member of the editorial board for Classical Philology (2014-)
• Referee for Classical Quarterly, The American Journal of Philology, The Cambridge
Classical Journal, Arethusa, Classical Philology, Syllecta Classica, Dictynna, Paideia,
The Classical Journal.
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Manuscript assessments for Cambridge University Press and Duckworth.
Assessment of work for tenure applications in US universities.
Member of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (London)
Member of the Board of Doctoral Studies in Comparative Literature, Istituto di Scienze
Umane - Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa-Florence)
Member of Fondazione Lorenzo Valla (Rome)
Lecture series
2012: University of Salamanca, Spain. Doctoral lecture series entitled 'Marziale e la turba
dei poeti: Catullo, Ovidio, Stazio'.
1) Marziale e Catullo: la morte dopo mille piccoli tagli
2) La metamorfosi ovidiana e la 'pienezza' del mondo flavio
3) Marziale, Stazio, e lo spazio vuoto
2009: Trinity College Dublin. W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures.
1) ‘Poetry’s space: Foundation and aporia’
2) ‘All four corners of the world: Horace’s angulus’
3) ‘Seneca’s psychobabel: In and out of the baths’
Recent invited papers
2015: Scuola Normale di Pisa. Conference on 'Female Sovereignty' ('Philosophia's dance: the
sinus of self-defence', with Julia Kristeva)
2015: University of Cambridge, lecture entitled 'Bodily integrity: Nussbaum and Butler on
Seneca'
2014: University of Oxford, conference on ‘Ovid and Postmodernism’ (‘Ovid in exile: identity,
poetry, domestic violence')
2014: The Warburg Institute, London, conference on ‘Satire Ancient and Modern’ ('Distance,
contamination, context: reception of Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis and post 9-11 satire’)
2014: Corpus Christi College, Oxford, conference on ‘Complex Inferiorities’ (‘Cultural cringe
or the creative superiority of self-loathing? Horace's Ars Poetica’)
2014: University of Rostock, conference on ‘Literary Interactions under Nerva, Trajan and
Hadrian’ (‘Martial and Tacitus on regime change’)
2014: University of Cambridge, Craven Seminar on ‘Being Human’ (‘The ideal of bodily
integrity: from Seneca to human rights theory’)
2014: University of Rome La Sapienza. Conference on the sea in Latin literature (‘Mari
claustrofobici, da Catullo a Stazio’)
2013: Chicago University, Rhetoric and Poetics workshop (‘Statius’ Achilleid and the body of
time’)
2013: Harvard University, conference on security, Department of Comparative Literature
(‘Security and rape: the case of Statius’ Achilles’). Cancelled due to terrorism.
2013: University of London, conference on 'Space and place in Latin literature' (‘Horace’s
angulus and the corner in conceptual art’)
2013: University of Berlin, conference on 'Imagined spaces in Greek and Roman literature'
'Postscript').
2013: University of St Andrews, conference on Nervan and Trajanic literary culture ('Digging
up Virgil: the end of Tacitus Annals 15').
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2013: University College London, Ancient Literature Seminar ('Statius' Achilleid and the body
of time').
2013: University of Roma La Sapienza, conference 'Che genere di programmi? Percorso e
canoni per una scuola che cambi' ('Ripensando il canone: il corpo maschile fra Virgilio e
Stazio').
2012: Venice International University Advanced Seminar ('The labour of empire: womb and
world in Seneca's Medea').
2012: Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence. Advanced Comparative Literature Seminar
on tragedy ('Seneca e lo spazio tragico').
2012: University of St Andrews. Study day on metaphor in honour of Prof. S.Bartsch ('Senecan
dwelling and the conditions of metaphor')
2011: University of London, conference on ‘Aesthetics and class in the Roman world’ (‘Latin
literature and the aesthetics of the crowd’)
2011: University of Durham. Classical Association conference (‘From Seneca to Toussaint:
Display, writing and song at the baths’)
2009: University of Pavia. International conference, ‘La letteratura flavia fra Grecia e Roma’ (in
absentia)
2009: King’s College London. International conference on ‘Variety and miscellany in Latin
literature’ (‘An icy smell: miscellany, metaphor and books that move’)
2009: University of Vienna. International conference on ‘False closure in Greek and Roman
Literature and Art’ (‘Enclosure and rupture: Roman poetry in the arena’)
Prizes, scholarships, grants
2013
Sapienza University of Rome grant for research project entitled ‘Aspetti distruttivi
della dea d’amore da Inanna a Venere’ (euro 3,500).
2012
(With F.R.Berno) Sapienza University of Rome grant for research project entitled
'Omnia pontus erat: il mare e l'oceano nella letteratura latina' (euro 8,500).
2004
Italian Ministry of Universities research grant for project entitled ‘Martial and the
Poetics of Epigram’ (euro 140,000).
98-2001 KCLA (King’s College London Association) full PhD scholarship.
1995-6 British Academy scholarship.
1995
Richards Prize for Classics, King’s College Cambridge.
1994
Ridley Essay Prize, King’s College Cambridge.
1992
Members Classical Prize for Greek verse translation, University of Cambridge.
Teaching Experience
2004- : At Sapienza I have taught lecture and seminar courses on Roman literary culture, the
Roman novel, Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche, gender studies, erotic poetry, Ovid, Martial, Tacitus,
Seneca and the Emperors Claudius and Nero (including classes on Robert Graves and AlmaTadema), Roman bath literature and 20th century approaches to Latin literature. I regularly
supervise undergraduate and graduate theses (recently on slavery in Augustan Rome, Ovid’s
Dido, Fulgentius’ Mythologiae and theories of allegory, cosmetics in Roman culture, similes in
Virgil’s Aeneid, aristocratic women in early imperial Rome, Philip Roth and Apuleius’
Metamorphoses). 2002-3: At Cambridge I gave supervisions and lectures on a wide range of
Latin texts, and taught classes on Neronian literature and culture, Roman death, the Roman
countryside, satire, Virgil’s Aeneid, and the Roman novel, as well as on Latin language.
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2000-2002: At Oxford I taught a wide range of Latin texts, and courses on Ovid, Roman satire
and Virgil. I supervised MA dissertations on Bakhtin and ancient comedy, and on Euripides’
Bacchae and its reception in feminist scholarship, and helped lead a postgraduate course on
Critical Theory and the Classics. During this period I also gave a seminar course at King’s
College London (Values and Subversion in Roman Literature and Society) and lectured for the
Cambridge X-Caucus course Personal Politics).
1998-2000: While researching and writing my PhD, I taught Latin language, and a seminar
course on Greek Literature and Myth, at King’s College London. As an Associate Lecturer at the
Open University, I taught Culture, Identity and Power in the Roman Empire, and Reading
Classical Latin.
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