Thorsten Fögen is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. His interests lie in Latin literature from the late Republic until the early Empire, with particular regard to ancient technical texts, epistolography, animals in antiquity, history of linguistic ideas. His published works include a book on Roman authors' attitudes towards the Latin language ('Patrii sermonis egestas': Einstellungen lateinischer Autoren zu ihrer Muttersprache, Munich & Leipzig 2000: Saur) and a study dealing with Roman technical writing (Wissen, Kommunikation und Selbstdarstellung. Zur Struktur und Charakteristik römischer Fachtexte der frühen Kaiserzeit, Munich 2009: C.H.Beck).
Hunter Gardner is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of South Carolina. Her initial research efforts were devoted primarily to exploring the relationship between the genre of Latin love elegy and the Augustan historical context from which it emerged. Her first book,Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. Her latest research explores the development of plague narratives in the western tradition and, in particular, looks to Roman epic poets writing in the late Republic and early Principate as significant contributors to depictions of contagion. She has recently published the monographPestilence and Civil War in Latin Literature (2019, OUP).
George Gazis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. His main research interests lie in Archaic Greek Epic and Lyric in general and the Homeric epics in particular, as well as early Athenian drama. He is especially interested in the function of mortality and the afterlife in the Homeric Epics and early Lyric (especially Stesichorus, Pindar and Bacchylides), and the ways in which these concepts help shape a meta-poetic understanding of the Underworld as a poetic space of free expression for the poet. His publications include a monograph, Homer and the Poetics of Hades (2018, OUP), and the forthcoming volume Aspects of Death in Greek Literature, co-edited with A. Hooper (2021, LUP). He is currently working on his second monograph (Ghosts on Stage: Spectres, Spectacles and Alternative Truths in Athenian Drama).
Michael Goyette is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Eckerd College. His research interests include ancient science and the medical humanities, gender studies, Greek and Roman tragedy, and reception studies. He is particularly interested in the nature of bodies (both human and non-human), including the evolution of ideas concerning anatomy, physiology, and medicine; interactions between and within bodies in both dramatic settings and the natural world; and the implications of embodiment for lived experiences. His publications include: “Seneca’s ‘Corpus’: A Sympathy of Fluids and Fluctuations” in Bodily Fluids in Antiquity, in Totelin L., Leonard V., and Bradley M. (eds.) Routledge, 2021; “Deep Cuts: Rhetoric of Human Dissection, Vivisection, and Surgery in Latin Literature”, in The Body Unbound, Sowers B., Lu Hsu K., and Schur D. (eds.) forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan.
Julia Nelson Hawkins is Associate Professor of Classics and Project Director for Medical and Health Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme at The Ohio State University. Her research interests focus on Latin poetry, ancient medicine and reception of Hellenistic culture in Rome.Her publications include: Therapoetics after Actium: Narrative, Medicine, and Authority in Augustan Epic, coming out with Johns Hopkins University Press; "Caesar and Caesarean Section: the Poetics of Medicine and Childbirth in Ovid's Metamorphoses" (2008, in "Papers on Ancient Literatures: Greece, Rome, and the Near East"), and "The Ritual of Therapy: Venus the Healer in Virgil's Aeneid" (2004, in "Rituals in Ink: Proceedings from a Colloquium on Roman Religion"). Nelson Hawkins is also Project Director for Medical and Health Humanities and Arts at OSU and is working to build a larger infrastructure uniting Medicine and the Arts & Humanities at Ohio State.
George Kazantzidis is Assistant Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Patras, Greece. His interests lie primarily in the intersections between ancient medicine and poetry, with special emphasis on the history of mental illness. His published works include a discussion of doctors’ medical language in Greek and Roman comedy and a reassessment of Callimachus’ Acontius and Cydippe (Aetia fr.75) through the lens of Hippocratic gynaecology, as well as an edited volume on ancient medicine and paradoxography (Medicine and Paradoxography in Antiquity, De Gruyter, 2019). David Langslow is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester. He has pursued research especially in the areas of ancient medical texts and language, and descriptive and social linguistics. His research interests focus on Latin and Greek language, historical and literary aspects; the language, literature and social history of technical subjects in the ancient world, especially medicine and law. His publications include: "The language of poetry and the language of science: the Latin poets and 'medical Latin'", in Adams JN, Mayer RG (eds.), Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry, OUP, 1999; Medical Latin in the Roman Empire, OUP, 2000; Alexandri Tralliani Latini Liber III: De febribus singulis, Medica graecolatina, Santiago de Compostela.
Courtney Ann Roby is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, Cornell University. Her research interests focus on the literary aspects of scientific and technical texts from the ancient world, the interaction of verbal and visual elements in those texts, and the definition and dissemination of scientific work. Her first book (Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature: The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome, Cambridge University Press 2016) traces the literary techniques used in the textual representation of technological artifacts from Hellenistic Greece to late-ancient Rome. Her new book project focuses on Hero of Alexandria, whose multidisciplinary technical treatises spanned topics from pure geometry to the construction of mechanical automata, and who remained an influential figure in the history of mechanics through the 18th century.
Chiara Thumiger is a member of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS at the University of Kiel. She is interested in the history and narratives of human health and illness. Her project, titled “Ancient Guts”, investigates ancient views about nutritional processes in a broad cultural historical perspective. She has worked extensively on ancient medical ideas about the relationship between the body and the soul, bodily and mental/spiritual health and mental disorder. Her publications include A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and the co-edited volume Homo Patiens. Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World (Brill, 2015).
Laurence Totelin is Reader in Ancient History at Cardiff University. Her interests focus on the history of pharmacology and botany. She is currently interested in the ancient history of milk, with a focus on its symbolism in ancient cultures. Her work is influenced by gender theory, and she has a particular interest in gynaecological treatments, aphrodisiacs, and the properties of milk (especially breast-milk). Her publications include a co-edited volume on ancient medicine and markets (2020. Medicine and markets in the Graeco-Roman world and beyond: Essays in honour of Vivian Nutton. Classical Press of Wales, 2020) and a book chapter on ancient botany (What's a plant?. In: Taub, L. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science. Cambridge University Press, 2020). James Uden is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. His research focuses on Latin literature and the transformation of ancient ideas in later eras, especially the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He has published essays on a broad range of topics, including Catullus, Virgil, love elegy, travel literature, and ancient fable. His publications include The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome (Oxford, 2015; paperback 2018) and Spectres of Antiquity: Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830(Oxford, 2020). His project, tentatively entitled The Veins of the Muse: Medicine and Literature in the Roman Empire, is funded by a New Directions grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Ioannis Ziogas is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. His interests revolve around the politics and poetics of Latin poetry, mainly of the age of Augustus. His first book (Ovid and Hesiod: The Metamorphosis of the Catalogue of Women, CUP 2013) offers the first wide-ranging study of Hesiod’s reception in Ovid. He has recently published a monograph entitled Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus (OUP, 2021), which aims to open a dialogue between legal theory and classical literature by examining the interdependence of legal and poetic discourse in Ovid's poetic production.