Dr Nora Goldschmidt

Research Interests

My main research interests lie in Latin literature and Roman culture, and in the reception of classical antiquity. In particular, I am interested in viewing literature not just as a literary artefact but as something that is embedded and operates within wider cultural contexts. My doctoral thesis, which I am currently preparing for publication, looks at the relationship between Ennius’ epic  Annales and Virgil’s Aeneid, with a particular focus on how the Aeneid takes over from its epic predecessor as a repository of Roman cultural memory. My next planned projects include articles on early Roman satire and a monograph on  the classical fragment in the modern imagination, examining how the literature and material culture of antiquity constituted a key thread of influence in the fragmentary aesthetics of Modernism.

Teaching

I teach on a range of Latin subhonours and honours modules, including LT1003 (Catullus), LT1004 (Ovid, Heroides), LT1001 (Elementary Latin) and LT4210 (Virgil, Georgics 4, for Latin Didactic), as well as the Classical Studies subhonours module CL2004 (Virgil’s Aeneid).

Academic Career:

Education

BA, MA (London), DPhil (Oxon.)

Previous Employment

Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, King’s College London (2010-11)

Publications

Monograph

Shaggy Crowns: Ennius’ Annales and Virgil’s Aeneid (in preparation for ‘Oxford Classical Monographs’ (OUP))

Articles

‘Absent Presence: pater Ennius in Renaissance Europe’, Classical Receptions Journal (forthcoming)

Reviews

 ‘No, Virgil, no’, review of R. D. Williams, Aeneid, 2nd ed., The Oxonian Review (1st March 2010)

Review of J. Sachs, Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832 (Oxford, 2010), Bryn Mawr Classical Review (22nd June 2010)

I have also contributed entries for R. F. Thomas and J. Ziolkowski, eds., The Virgil Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming)