Gesine Manuwald

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Gesine Manuwald (born June 13, 1974 in Saarbrücken ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Manuwald was born as the eldest daughter of the classical philologist Bernd Manuwald , who at that time was still a research assistant at Saarland University . Her mother is the classical philologist Anke Manuwald née Ullner. Her sister is Henrike Manuwald . From 1984 she attended grammar school in Neuss and Düsseldorf . In 1992 she won first prize in the North Rhine-Westphalian school competition "Ancient Languages ​​- Ancient Cultures", a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . In 1993 she passed the Abitur at the Görres-Gymnasium Düsseldorf.

She began studying Latin, Greek and English in 1993 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . 1995–97 she worked there as a student assistant, interrupted by a year of study at University College London (1995/1996). In 1997 she passed the first state examination and the pedagogical course in Freiburg. Since July 1, 1997, she has been a research assistant on the special research project “Constitution and Construction of Identity and Alterity in the Tragedy of the Roman Republic”. In 1998 she passed the Rigorosum in Latin, Greek and English and received her doctorate in Latin. Since the summer semester of 1998, she has been a lecturer at the Freiburg Seminar for Classical Philology. In the winter semester 1998/1999 and in the summer semester 1999 she was an assistant in Latin Studies. In June 2000 she completed her habilitation in Classical Philology and in October she received the Albert Ludwig University's sponsorship award “for the most recent habilitation in many years in recognition of the outstanding academic achievement”.

From 2003 to 2008 she was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation . In 2006 she was appointed adjunct professor in Freiburg. She has been teaching and researching at University College London since 2008 , initially as Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature , and since 2012 as Professor of Latin .

Manuwald is particularly concerned with the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus , to which she also linked her dissertation. A second research focus is the area of ​​republican dramatic poetry, especially from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. In addition to the comedy writer Plautus , she also deals with essential pretexts from this era.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The Cyzicus episode and its function in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus . Göttingen 1999 ( Hypomnemata 127; dissertation)
  • Fabulae praetextae. Traces of a literary genre of the Romans . Munich 2001 ( Zetemata ; habilitation thesis)
  • Pacuvius, summus tragicus poeta. The dramatic profile of his tragedies . Munich / Leipzig 2003 ( contributions to antiquity 191)
  • Cicero, Philippics 3-9. Edited with introduction, translation and commentary . Two volumes, Berlin / New York 2007 ( texts and comments 30)
  • Tragicorum Romanorum fragmenta. Vol. 2. Ennius . Göttingen 2012
  • Nero in opera. Librettos as transformations of ancient sources . Berlin / Boston 2013 ( Transformations of Antiquity 24)
Editing
  • Identity and Alterity in Early Roman Tragedy . Wuerzburg 2000
  • The satirist Lucilius and his time . Munich 2001 ( Zetemata 110)
  • with Astrid Voigt: Flavian epic interactions . Berlin / Boston 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2001. ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) DFG
  2. ↑ Directory of members: Gesine Manuwald. Academia Europaea, accessed January 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Manuwald, Gesine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken