Danuta Shanzer

Danuta Renu Shanzer (* 1956 in New York City ) is an American classical philologist and mediaevalist .

Life

Danuta Shanzer is an alumna of the Brearley School in New York City. She studied Ancient Greek and Latin at Bryn Mawr College (BA 1977) and Literae Humaniores at Corpus Christi College , University of Oxford (D.Phil 1981). She taught at the University of Manchester (1980 to 1981), then as Assistant Professor , and finally as Associate Professor of Classical Philology at the University of California at Berkeley (1981 to 1990). In 1989 she was visiting professor of classical philology at Harvard University , then associate professor and finally full professor of classical philology, religious studies and medieval studies at Cornell University (1989 to 2003), where she headed the medieval studies program for nine years. From 2003 to 2011 she was Professor of Classical Philology and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In 2011 she received a call to the Institute for Classical Philology, Middle and New Latin at the University of Vienna , where she now works as a university professor for Late and Middle Latin Philology.

Shanzer's research focuses on the history of literature, classical and Middle Latin philology, and the social and religious history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. She has authored two books and edited four books. She has held many different academic editorial functions as well as the editorial management of the "Latin Series" from the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series (Harvard University Press). She is the editor of the series "Society, Culture, and Text in Late Antiquity" and the corresponding editor of the journal Early Medieval Europe . She is a member of the editorial board of the journals Journal of Late Antiquity , the Journal of Medieval Latin and Wiener Studien . She is also a member of the editorial board of the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum at the University of Salzburg .

Shanzer is a full member of the Medieval Academy of America and a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

Monographs

• A Philosophical and Literary Commentary on Martianus Capella’s De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii Liber 1, Berkeley 1986.
• with Ian N. Wood : Letters and Selected Prose of Avitus of Vienne, Translated Texts for Historians 38, Liverpool 2002.

Editorships

• with Ralph Mathisen: Culture and Society in Later Roman Gaul: Revisiting the Sources, Aldershot 2001.
• Illinois Classical Studies Supplement 8: From Babel to Finnegans Wake: Collected Papers of Howard Jacobson, Urbana 2009.
• with Ralph Mathisen: Romans and Barbarians and the Transformation of the Roman World, Aldershot 2011.
• Featuring Ralph Mathisen: The Battle of Vouillé 507 CE: Where France Began, De Gruyter 2012.

Selected articles from magazines

• “'Arcanum Varronis iter:' Licentius's Verse Epistle to Augustine,” Revue des Études Augustiniennes 37 (1991) 110-143
• "Two Clocks and a Wedding: Theodoric's Diplomatic Relations with the Burgundians," Romanobarbarica 14 (1996-97) 225-258
• “Dating the Baptism of the Bishop of Vienne vs. the Bishop of Tours, " Early Medieval Europe 7.1 (1998) 29-57
• “ Avulsa a latere meo : Augustine's Spare Rib - Augustine Confessions 6.15.25,” Journal of Roman Studies 92 (2002) 157-176
• “So many Saints — so Little Time: the Libri Miraculorum of Gregory of Tours,” Journal of Medieval Latin 13 (2003) 19-60
• "Voices and Bodies: The Afterlife of the Unborn," Numen 56 (2009) 326-65
• "Who was Augustine's Publicola?" Revue des Études Juives 171.1-2 (2012) 27-60.
• “Sex, Lies, and Ordeal by Oath: A Case Study of Augustine, Epp. 78 and 80, ” Reading Medieval Studies 40 (2014) 11-33

Web links

• Page by Danuta Shanzer at the University of Vienna
• Website by Danuta Shanzer (academia.edu)