Meike Rühl

Meike Rühl (* 1973 ) is a German classical philologist ( Latinist ).

Life

Meike Rühl studied Latin, Greek and East Slavic philology at the universities of Tübingen and St. Petersburg in a double degree ( state examination and master's degree ) from 1993 to 2000 . From 2000 to 2004 she completed a doctoral degree in Latin Philology at the University of Giessen . At the same time she was lecturer for Latin courses there and held events at the Institute for Classical Philology. In the winter semester 2000/01 she was a research assistant at the Chair of Greek Studies at the University of Giessen. From winter semester 2004/05 to summer semester 2009 she was a research assistant at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Göttingen . After completing his habilitation in Göttingen in 2010, Rühl was awarded the venia legendi for classical philology. In the winter semester of 2009/10, she went to the University of Wuppertal as a student assistant . She had been on leave since the summer semester 2012 and until the summer semester 2018 she represented Christina Meckelnborg's professorship for Classical Philology at the University of Osnabrück . Since the 2019/2020 winter semester, Rühl has again held a professorship for Classical Philology with a focus on Latin / gender research in Osnabrück .

Her main areas of work are the Roman literature of the late republic as well as the early and middle imperial period , letters and occasional literature , the authors Cicero and Statius , the connection of philological-text-centered methods with cultural studies and context-oriented issues (media and communication , space , performativity and identity ) and the didactics of Latin literature and language.

Fonts (selection)

• Cicero's correspondence as a medium of literary and social action (= Mnemosyne supplement volume 422). Brill, Boston 2018, ISBN 900438314X (also habilitation thesis, Göttingen 2010).
• A moment turned into literature. The Silven of Statius in the context of literary and social conditions of poetry (= studies of ancient literature and history. Volume 81). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-11-019112-1 (also dissertation, Gießen 2004).
• with Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser and Dennis Pausch (eds.): Culture of antiquity. Transdisciplinary work in classical studies . Verlag Antike, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-938032-41-1 .
• with Birgit Eickhoff , Peter Kuhlmann , Markus Janka , Stefan Kipf , Markus Schauer , Henning Horstmann : Latin Literature Didactics (= Latin study books ) Buchner, Bamberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7661-8001-8 .
• with Marc Bruxelles , Peter Kuhlmann, Thorsten Fuchs , Bernhard Goldmann , Julia Schäfer-Schmitt , Bianca-Jeanette Schröder : Latin literary didactics . Buchner, Bamberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7661-7595-3 .
• (Ed.): Man between escape from the world and responsibility for the world. Life models of pagan and Judeo-Christian antiquity (= studies and texts on antiquity and Christianity. Volume 88). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 3-16-153091-8 .
• with Stephan Freund and Christoph Schubert (eds.): From turning points and the end of times. Reflection and construction of end times and epochs in the field of tension between antiquity and Christianity (= Palingenesia Volume 103). Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 3-515-11174-3 .

Web links

• Meike Rühl on the website of the University of Osnabrück