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5. Dissertations in progress and recently defended (from 2015)

  • Åshede, Linnea. Desiring Hermaphrodites: The Relationships of Hermaphroditus in Roman Group Scenes. Supervisors: I. Wiman and I. Östenberg, University of Gothenburg (Sweden). Defended: 27/11/2015
    https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/40657 (Abstract)

  • Berlaire Gues, Estelle. Figures impériales au féminin: pouvoir, identités et stratégies discursives (1er s av. – 3ième s. après J.-C.). Supervisors: S. Benoist and J. Fabre-Serris, University of Lille. Defended in 2021.

  • Bonnell-Freiden, Anna. Uncertain Beginnings: Childbirth and Risk in the Roman Empire. Supervisor: B. Holmes. Department of Classics, Princeton University. Defended in 2018.

  • Byl, SA. The Offering of Perfume during the Amarna Period within the Context of the New Kingdom. Supervisor: M. De Marre, University of South Africa. Defended in 2021.

  • Brännstedt, Lovisa. Femina princeps: Livia’s position in the Roman state. Supervisors: G. Vidén and E. Rystedt, Lund University (Sweden). Defended: 16/09/2016.
    https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/6d7a630a-e557-465a-aeb7-f6f89c460f56 (Open Access)

  • Breitenfeld, Sarah Brucia. ‘Someone Get a Whip!’ Enslaved Women and Violence in Athenian Oratory, Comedy, and Curses. Supervisor: D. Kamen, Department of Classics, University of Washington. Defended in 2022.

  • Buturovic, Malina. A Common Nature and a Community of Souls: Kinship, Heredity, and Reproduction in Galen and Plutarch. Supervisor: B. Holmes. Department of Classics, Princeton University. In progress.

  • Capettini, Emilio. An Improbable Symphony: Constructions of Character and Explorations of Paternity in Heliodorus’ Aethopica. Supervisor: B. Holmes. Princeton University. Defended in 2016.

  • Caresse, Jackson. Odysseus and Venus as Mythological Typoi in the Black Atlantic. Supervisor: B. Holmes, Department of Classics, Princeton University. In progress.

  • Claros, Yujhán. Classical Coloniality; Marginality, Subalternisms, and Gender Trouble in the Hellenized Imperial Poetry of Alexandria and Rome. Supervisor: B. Holmes, Department of Classics, Columbia University. Defended in 2020.

  • Hendricks, Amy. Approaching Chorality: Literary Representations of the Chorus in Archaic Greek Poetry. Supervisor: L. McClure. Defended May 6, 2020.

  • Fabre, Siwany. Jocaste, reine, épouse et mère. Lectures anciennes et modernes. Supervisor: J. Fabre-Serris, University of Lille. In progress.

  • Finnigan, Sheena. Working Moms: Motherhood, Occupation, and Status in Roman Italy, ca. 100 BCE-150 CE. Supervisor: Marc Kleijwegt. Department of History, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Defended in 2022.

  • Gallegos, Luciana. La alteridad en el helenismo: representaciones de figuras femeninas y foráneas en Argonáuticas de Apolonio de Rodas. Supervisors: E. Rodriguez Cidre y E.J. Buis, Universidad de Buenos Aires. In progress.

  • Hamelink Anique M. Dressing gender and change: innovations in the representation of the body and dress on funerary monuments in the north-western provinces of the Roman Empire. Supervisors: E. Hemelrijk, O. Hekster, U. Rothe, University of Amsterdam. In progress.

  • Haselswerdt, Elsa. Chorality and Lyricism in Greek Tragic Thought. Supervisor: B. Holmes, Department of Classics, Princeton University. Defended in 2018.

  • Hutchins, Richard. Lucretius against Human Exceptionalism. Supervisor: B. Holmes. Department of Classics, Princeton University. Defended in 2019.

  • Kay Gabriel. Euripides, Moderniste: Tragic Adaptation and Avant-Garde Classicism in the Twentieth Century. Supervisor: B. Holmes, Department of Classics, Princeton University. Defended in 2020.

  • Landa, Maria Bélen. Entre las emociones y la razón: hacia una poética trágica de la venganza femenina en Medea y Electra de Eurípides. Supervisors: E. Rodriguez Cidre y E.J. Buis, Universidad de Buenos Aires. In progress.

  • Lindgren Liljenstolpe, Erika. Sempronia’s Song: Attitudes to Women’s Music-making in Ancient Rome. Supervisors: G. Ekroth and H. Ganetz, Uppsala University (Sweden). Defended: 09/10/2015.
    http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A848326&dswid=-4001 (Open Access)

  • Lotter, L. Aspasia of Miletus. Perceptions of female identity in the 5th century BCE. Supervisor: M. De Marre, University of South Africa. In progress.

  • Macura, Victoria. Korruption und Geschlecht. Diskursive Konstruktionen von männlicher und weiblicher Korruption im klassischen Athen. Supervisor: Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Postdam Universität.

  • Maracci, Camilla. Das Spiel mit Geschlechterrollen in Ovids erotischer Dichtung / Il gioco con i ruoli di genere nella poesia erotica ovidiana. Supervisors: S. Freund, University of Wuppertal, und M. Rivoltella, Catholic University of Milan.

  • Maresca, Victoria. Representaciones literarias del filicidio y su tipología en la tragedia griega clásica. Supervisors: E. Rodriguez Cidre y E.J. Buis, Universidad de Buenos Aires. In progress.

  • Martorana Simona. Women, Heroines, Mothers: Motherhood in Ovid’s Heroides. Supervisors: J. Ingleheart and I. Ziogas, Durham University, UK. Defended in 2021.

  • Nuorluoto, Tuomo. Roman Female Cognomina: Studies in the Nomenclature of Roman Women. Supervisors: G Haverling and O. Salomies, Uppsala University. Defended 26/02/2021.
    (http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1514294&dswid=492 (Open Access)

  • Obrist, Katia. El hogar de Pandora: la representación de las mujeres desde los espacios femeninos en el teatro de Sófocles. Supervisors: E. Rodriguez Cidre y A. Iriarte, Universidad de Buenos Aires. In progress.

  • Palermo Sara. Construir identidades: la homosexualidad femenina a través de la recepción del mundo clásico (Building Identities: Female-Female Desire through the Reception of Classical Antiquity). Supervisors: R. López Gregoris y L. Unceta Gómez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

  • Partanen, Paulina. Navigating Female Power: (De-)constructing the Space of the Immortal Threat in Homer’s Odyssey. Supervisor: G. Beer, Uppsala University (Sweden). Defended: 10/06/2016.
    http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A922112&dswid=5808 (Abstract)

  • Pontoropoulos, Antonios. Erotic Language and Representations of Desire in the Philostratean Erotic Letters. Supervisors I. Nilsson, D. Iordanoglou and H. Morales, Uppsala University (Sweden). Defended: 21/09/2019.
    http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1340126&dswid=-6941 (Open Access)

  • Pienaar, N. Female voices in ancient Greek weaving narratives? Supervisor: M. De Marre, University of South Africa. In progress.

  • Perczyk Cecilia Josefina. La locura y su tratamiento en Heracles y Bacantes: una aproximación psicoanalítica a las tragedias de Eurípides. Supervisors : E. Rodriguez Cidre e S. López, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Defended in 2017.

  • Puche, Océane. Les Epîtres Héroïques de Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier : traduction et réception d'Ovide au XVIIe siècle. Supervisor: J. Fabre-Serris, University of Lille. Defended in 2020.

  • Razmerita, D. The meaning of marriage in ancient Near Eastern documents and the Hebrew Bible. Supervisor: M. De Marre, University of South Africa. In progress.

  • Roussel, B. Femmes et sociétés portuaires en Méditerranée romaine : les cas de Narbonne, Aquilée, Corinthe et Ephèse mis en perspective. Ier siècle av. J.-C – IIIème siècle. Supervisors: M.-L. Bonsangue and C. Hoët-Van Cauwenberghe, University of Picardie Jules Verne and University of Lille. In progress.

  • Salcedo, Cristina. Perséfone renacida. El mito de Perséfone en la literatura juvenil anglosajona del siglo XXI. Un estudio desde la Mitocrítica y la Recepción Clásica, (Persephone Reborn. The Myth of Persephone in Contemporary Young Adult Literature), written in English: A Study from the Perspectives of Myth Criticism and Classical Reception). Supervisors: A. González Rivas y L. Unceta. Defended in 2022.

  • Seidler, Sophie. Myth in the Time of Anorexia. Poetics and Pathology of Slenderness and Food-Refusal in Contemporary Women's Writing on Persephone and Demeter. Supervisors: J. Prade-Weiss and E. Oliensis (études classiques), LMU Munich. In progress.

  • Steen, M.C. From Bread and Circuses to Movies and Popcorn – Filmic representations of Ancient Rome and its perceived violent core. Supervisor M. De Marre, University of South Africa. Defended 2021.

  • Vekselius, Johan, Weeping for the res publica: Tears in Roman political culture. Supervisor(s): A.-M. Leander Touati and I. Östenberg. Lund University (Sweden). Defended: 04/05/2018.
    https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/b043bd37-a010-40a0-846a-77a379ddb8b9 (Open Access)

  • Webb, Lewis. Gloria muliebris: Elite female status competition in Mid-Republican Rome. Supervisors: I. Östenberg and A. Blennow, University of Gothenburg (Sweden), https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/60216 (Abstract). Defended: 28/08/2019.

  • Wright, Jessica. All in the Mind: Brain and Soul in Late Antiquity. Supervisor: B. Holmes, Department of Classics, Princeton University. Defended in 2016

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