Helen Lovatt
Helen Lovatt | |
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Nationality | British |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Thesis | Games and realities in Statius, 'Thebaid 6' |
Doctoral advisor | J. G. W. Henderson |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Institutions | University of Nottingham |
Helen V. Lovatt is Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. She is known in particular for her work on Latin epic literature especially from the Flavian period.[1]
Career
Lovatt read Classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where she was awarded her PhD in 2000 with a dissertation on Games and realities in Statius, 'Thebaid 6' .[2] Lovatt lectured at Keele University before moving to a Junior Research Fellowship at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. In 2003 Lovatt joined the department of Classics at the University of Nottingham.[1] Lovatt delivered her inaugural lecture as Professor of Classics, Epic Journeys, on the 15th February 2017.[3][4]
Lovatt's PhD work on the athletic games in Statius' Thebaid was published as Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid (Cambridge University Press, 2005). In the book, Lovatt interpreted Statius' work as a microcosm of the whole epic tradition.[1] More recently, Lovatt has worked on the epic tradition in both Latin and Greek literature, publishing a book on vision in epic from Homer to Nonnus, The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic (Cambridge University Press, 2013)[5] and a co-edited work Epic Visions (Cambridge University Press, 2013) with Caroline Vout which resulted from a conference in Nottingham in 2003.[6]
Lovatt currently works on classical reception, particularly in detective and children's literature, resulting in her co-edited volume Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation (I. B. Tauris, 2018) with Owen Hodkinson following a conference on the subject at the University of Wales, Lampeter in 2009.[1]
Selected publications
- ed. with Owen Hodkinson Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
- The epic gaze: vision, gender and narrative in ancient epic (Cambridge University Press, 2013)[5]
- ed. with Caroline Vout Epic visions: visuality in Greek and Latin epic and its reception (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- Statius and epic games: sport, politics and poetics in the Thebaid (Cambridge University Press, 2005)[7]
External links
- Ovid and the Argonauts: Heroides, Metamorphoses and Maffeo Vegio's Vellus Aureum - lecture delivered to the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 3rd June 2017
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Helen Lovatt - The University of Nottingham". www.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-06.
- ↑ Helen, Lovatt, (2000-01-01). "Games and realities in Statius, 'Thebaid 6'". doi:10.17863/CAM.19024.
- ↑ "Helen Lovatt holds her inaugural lecture, Epic Journeys - The University of Nottingham". www.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-06.
- ↑ "The Story of an Inaugural, by Professor Helen Lovatt - Argonauts and Emperors". Argonauts and Emperors. 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2018-09-06.
- 1 2 Bernstein, Neil W. (2014). "Review of: The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
- ↑ Reitz, Christiane (2015-07-02). "Epic Visions. Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception, written by H. Lovatt, C. Vout". Mnemosyne. 68 (4): 704–709. doi:10.1163/1568525X-12341944. ISSN 1568-525X.
- ↑ Dewar, Michael (2009). "Review of: Statius and Epic Games. Sport, Politics, and Poetics in the Thebaid. Cambridge Classical Studies". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.