Melanie Möller

Melanie Möller (born May 25, 1972 in Bielefeld ) is a German classical philologist .

After studying to be a teacher in German , history and Latin studies from 1993 to 1998 at Bielefeld University , she became the subject of Talis oratio - qualis vita there in 2002 . The theory and practice of mimetic procedures in the Greco-Roman literary criticism doctorate . She then worked as a research assistant and since 2004 as a research assistant at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where she also studied Greek literature from 2005 and graduated with the 1st state examination in 2007. In 2009 she completed her habilitation in Heidelberg on the subject of Cicero's rhetoric as a theory of attention . After a visiting professorship at the Free University of Berlin and substitute professorships in Münster and Heidelberg, she has been Professor of Classical Philology with a focus on Latin Studies at the Free University of Berlin since 2015 .

Her main research interests are poetry and prose of late Republican and Augustan literature , poetics and rhetoric, philosophy of language , hermeneutics and reception of ancient literature.

Fonts (selection)

• Talis Oratio - Qualis Vita. On the theory and practice of mimetic procedures in Greco-Roman literary criticism . Heidelberg 2004. ISBN 3-8253-1631-9
• with Alexander Arweiler (Eds.): On Self-Understanding in Antiquity and Modern Times. Notions of the Self in Antiquity and Beyond . Berlin / New York 2008. ISBN 978-3-11-020571-8
• Cicero's rhetoric as a theory of attention . Heidelberg 2013. ISBN 3-8253-6250-7

Web links

• Curriculum vitae and list of publications from the Free University of Berlin
• Curriculum vitae and list of publications from Heidelberg University
• Melanie Möller in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists