Classics, University of Warwick
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10th January 2026: “Vivid Illusion in the Imagines of Philostratus: negotiating boundaries in the ekphrasis of Polyphemus”, paper at the Society for Classical Studies 2026 Annual Meeting (San Francisco and online)
26th September 2025: “Looking forward in ekphrasis: Illusion in the Imagines of Philostratus and the Descriptions of Callistratus”, paper at “Romancing Rhetoric: Imperial Fiction and Late-Antique Rhetorical theories and practices” conference organised by Dr. Nicolò D’Alconzo and Prof. Koen De Temmerman (Ghent University)
16th July 2025: “Performing and experiencing a tour of an art gallery through rhetoric: a comparison between the Imagines of Philostratus and the Satyricon of Petronius”, paper at the 16th Celtic Conference in Classics (University of Coimbra)
25th April 2025: “Visualising images through words: the challenges of ekphrasis in the Imagines of Philostratus”, 30-minutes workshop presentation at “Why Study Imperial Greek Texts, and How?” workshop organised by Dr. Francesca Modini, Prof. Laurent Pernot and Dr. Caroline Petit (University of Warwick)
27th February 2025: “Viewing the female object through ekphrasis: Rhodogoune in the Imagines of Philostratus”, invitation to deliver a 1-hour Research Seminar, supported by Leeds Centre for Ancient World and Classical Reception Studies, University of Leeds (University of Leeds)
27th November 2024: "Love and bestiality: Polyphemus and Galatea in the Imagines of Philostratus", paper presented at the Work In Progress Seminars (University of Warwick)
24th October 2025: "The Ideal and the Ugly: bodies through senses, media and cultural memory" (University of Warwick) – interdisciplinary conference co-organised with Katarina Kompauerova (University of Leicester) and funded by the Cohort Development Fund of AHRC M4C. Keynote speaker: Dr. Anastasia Meintani (University of Vienna); number of papers: 26
22nd May 2024: Annual Postgraduate Colloquium of the Department of Classics and Ancient History (University of Warwick) – co-organised with Shekinah Vera-Cruz (Warwick)
4th October 2023: M4C Research Festival (Austin Court, Birmingham) – Research Relay Team
Johns Hopkins University and Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe – Warwick PhD and Early Career Research Fellowship
I collaborated with the Singleton Center and the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance; I investigated the reception of Philostratus’ Imagines by Blaise de Vigenère (1523-1596) and used the resources of the Sheridan Libraries and the Centers; I collaborated with the Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins University under the tutorage of Dr. Nandini Pandey to develop my research (28th March – 18th April 2024).
See report here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/jhu/claudi/
October 2025-May 2026: Latin Reading Group (University of Warwick, Department of Classics and Ancient History)
13th March 2025: Lecture "Looking backwards and forwards with Imperial Greek Literature" for the module "Encounters with Greek Texts" (University of Warwick, Department of Classics and Ancient History)
October 2024-May 2026: Ancient Greek Reading Group (for two academic years) (University of Warwick, Department of Classics and Ancient History)
January-April 2024: Weekly seminars for the module "Politics of Archaic and Classical Greek Literature: New Mythologies of the Social" (University of Warwick, Department of Classics and Ancient History)
October 2024: Peer Reviewer for the "New Classicist" Journal – peer-reviewed journal funded by the Institute of Classical Studies (London)
2nd-26th August 2023: Summer School: Intensive course in German Language (B1 level) – University of Freiburg (Germany)
13th-22nd May 2023: Gender and Research – online training by Sharon Elliott, Co-Director, The Researcher Development Partnership, Cambridge
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