Katharina Lorenz (archaeologist)

Katharina Lorenz is a German classical archaeologist .

Life

From 1993 to 2002 she studied Classical Archeology, Ancient History and Greek Philology in Berlin , Oxford , Rome and Heidelberg . She was an associated member of the Image - Body - Media research group (Institute for Image Media, Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe) and worked from 2003 to 2005 as a research assistant at the Professorship for Classical Archeology in Giessen . She then worked from 2005 to 2018 as a lecturer, associate professor and professor in the Department of Classics at Nottingham University . In autumn 2015/16 she was Visiting Professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and from April 2016 to March 2017 she was a Research Fellow at the International College Morphomata at the University of Cologne . Since April 2018 she has been Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Giessen.

She works on image science issues relating to Greek and Roman imperial antiquity, linked to issues of cultural and intellectual history, the implications of digital technologies in the formation of knowledge in the humanities, and the transfer of knowledge in museum contexts.

Fonts (selection)

• Pictures create spaces. Mythical images in Pompeian houses. (= Image & context. Volume 5). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019473-9 (also dissertation, Heidelberg 2001/2002).
• Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation. An Introduction to Iconology, Semiotics and Image Studies in Classical Art History . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016, ISBN 978-0-521-13972-4 .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae and list of publications , Justus Liebig University Giessen website
• academia.edu
• morphomata.uni-koeln.de