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Professor Valentina Arena, 果冻影院
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Valentina Arena is Professor of Ancient History at 果冻影院, UK. Her work focuses on the history of ancient ideas and ancient political thought as well as the wider intellectual landscape of the Roman Republic. She is the author of听Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the late Roman Republic听(Cambridge 2012) and the editor of听Liberty: an Ancient Concept for the Contemporary World听(special issue of听Journal of the History of European Ideas 2016, republished by Routledge听Liberty: Ancient Ideas and Modern Perspectives听2021).
Alongside the听Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic听(forthcoming, 2021), she has co-edited two volumes on Varro and the antiquarian tradition,听Varronian Moments听(special issue of the听Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2017) and听Reconstructing the Republic: Varro and Imperial Authors听(special issue of听Res publica Litterarum听2018).
听Dr Stephen Blair, 果冻影院
Research Fellow
Stephen Blair鈥檚 research centres on the fragmentary remains of the earliest Roman historical literature in prose, epic and drama. He received his PhD in Classics from Princeton University in 2019 and joined听FRRAnt听as a postdoctoral research fellow in December 2020.听His current monograph project is a thematic study of the methods and interests of Republican听ab urbe condita听historians, whose choice of a narrative form stretching from the earliest traditions to the authors鈥� own day enabled them to negotiate ruptures and continuities between a malleable antiquity and a changing present.
Dr Richard Marshall,听果冻影院
Research Fellow
r.m.a.marshall@ucl.ac.uk
Richard joined 果冻影院 in 2020 as a Research Fellow of听FRRAnt. His work focuses on the scholarship of Republican and early Imperial Rome, its philosophical and ideological underpinnings, and its fate at the hands of subsequent ancient readers and early editors. He has allied interests in ancient historiography and pedagogy, the history of the book, and ancient mathematics. He is currently working on an edition of the mathematical texts transmitted with the corpus of Roman land-surveying treatises, with future plans to edit the fragmentary remains of Suetonius.
Before joining 果冻影院, Richard also worked on the 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators' project at the University of Glasgow, and has lectured at Oxford, Glasgow, and the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Dr Domenico Giordani, 果冻影院
Research Fellow
domenico.giordani@lmh.ox.ac.uk
Domenico听Giordani holds a DPhil in Classical Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford (St John鈥檚). He worked as Language Instructor at the Faculty of Classics at Oxford and as Lecturer in Latin at Lady Margaret Hall (Oxford).听His research interests gravitate around textual criticism, early Latin metre, socio-linguistics, and the application of interpretative frames drawn from anthropological research to the study of ancient societies.
Domenico听joined 果冻影院 in October 2021 as a Research Fellow of FRRAnt.听In his capacity as a member of the听FRRAnt听team, he contributes to the editing and commenting of the scattered remains of antiquarian works from the Republican period. His other projects include a critical edition with commentary of Titus Maccius Plautus鈥櫶�Trinummus听(in progress for Oxford University Press) and a monograph on silence and marginality in Roman culture.听
Dr Antonino Pitta鈥�,听Universit谩 Cattolica (Milan)
FRRAnt Visiting Expert and 果冻影院 Honorary Lecturer
Antonino Pitt脿 is an Honorary Lecturer at 果冻影院 and postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Universit脿 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan). He holds a PhD in Latin Philology from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
His research interests include manifold aspects of Latin literature and material culture, at different stages of their historical development: Roman Antiquarianism and its transmission, with special attention to Varro鈥檚 fragmentary works; late-antique Lexicography and its relationship with Early and Late-Republican literature (esp. Nonius Marcellus and the lex Lindsay); the manuscript tradition and early reception of Virgil鈥檚 works; poetry of the Imperial Age (mainly Statius, along with Ovid and Lucan); style and content of technical prose (Varro, Pliny, Solinus). He has published two critical editions with a commentary (Varro鈥檚 De vita populi Romani and Statius鈥� Silvae Book I: Domitian鈥檚 poems).
As a member of the Advisory听Board, he takes part in the survey of ancient sources, which is aimed at reviewing and editing the fragments of Roman Republican Antiquarians. He contributes to the general research activity of the Board and takes part in collateral initiatives such as workshops and seminars concerning Republican Antiquarianism.
Professor Giorgio Piras,听La Sapienza University听(Rome)
FRRAnt Senior Visiting Expert and 果冻影院 Honorary Lecturer
Giorgio Piras is a Professor of Classics (鈥淔ilologia classica鈥�) at the Department of Classics at La Sapienza, Rome University. His work has focused particularly on Varro鈥檚 De lingua Latina, including the publication ofVarrone e i 鈥榩oetica verba鈥�. Studio sul settimo libro del 鈥楧e lingua Latina鈥� (Bologna 1998). He is currently working on a new critical edition of Varro鈥檚 text for the 鈥楤ibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Latinorum Teubneriana鈥�, as well as preparing a comprehensive study on the manuscript tradition and a complete commentary on the text. Giorgio has also carried out research on the history of grammatical ancient theories, the transmission of classical and humanistic texts, and the history of classical scholarship. He has authored and edited several volumes and articles on these subjects. Giorgio has previously been a member of the Academic Senate and is currently the editor in chief of the journal Scienze dell鈥橝ntichit脿 and Head of the Department of Classics at La Sapienza. Giorgio is also听Member of FRRAnt Editorial Board and Academic Advisory Board.
Dr Daniel Vallat, HiSoMA Laboratory and听Universit茅 Lumi猫re Lyon 2
FRRAnt Senior Visiting Expert
Dr听Daniel听Vallat听is lecturer in Latin and Greek, member of the HiSoMA laboratory, Honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), class of 2014, and Managing Editor of the online journal Eruditio Antiqua. His field of expertise is Latin poetry and late antique commentaries, Greco-Latin philological erudition and Greco-Latin literary onomastics. He is the author of numerous publications, amongst which include: Onomastique, culture et soci茅t茅 dans les Epigrammes de Martial听; Po茅tique(s) des commentaires antiques, co-edited with S. Cl茅ment-Tarantino and J.-Ch. Jolivet听;听Servius, Commentaire sur l鈥橢n茅ide de Virgile, Livre 1, co-edited avec M.听Vallat-B茅juis. He is currently working on the edition (with translation and commentary) of the Latin听Anthology and on the听Scholia Veronensia to Virgil.鈥�
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Dr Martina Farese,听La Sapienza听University听(Rome)
FRRAnt Visiting Expert and 果冻影院 Honorary Research Associate
Martina is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at 鈥淟a Sapienza鈥� University in Rome and she听joined the FRRAnt project in 2021 as a Visiting Fellow.听She holds a PhD in Latin Philology from 鈥淟a Sapienza鈥� University, where she conducted听research on Varro鈥檚 Menippean Satires, investigating, in particular, their relationship with Roman Comic Theatre.
She has also collaborated on听various听projects, working on听sources on ancient italic civilizations and on Roman legal texts. Currently, her work focuses on the depiction of Nature and italic landscape in Roman Antiquarianism.听Her main research interests are Varro, scholarly tradition and Roman Antiquarianism, as well as Roman satirical writing and ancient Menippean Satire.
Professor Christopher Smith,听University of St Andrews听
FRRAnt Editorial Board Member and CEO of the AHRC
Professor听Christopher听Smith听is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews and was Director of the British School at Rome, the UK鈥檚 leading humanities and creative arts research institute overseas, from 2009 to 2017.
Professor听Smith鈥檚 research explores constitutionalism and state formation with particular emphasis on the development of Rome as a political and social community, and how this was represented in ancient historical writing and subsequent political thought. He is the author or editor of over 20 books, including a major edition of the Fragments of the Roman Historians, and is advisor to a project on The Fragments of Republican Roman Orators.
Jessica Clarke, 果冻影院
Administration and Research Support - Project start until听2023.
Jessica听joined the FRRAnt Team as the project administrator and research support for the FRRAnt project. She has previously worked on multiple research projects associated with the British Museum, including two recent exhibitions. She is also currently a PhD student in the 果冻影院 History department, where her听esearch examines the relationship between theatre and political culture in the late Roman Republic and early Imperial period. Taking a new approach to the well-studied literary sources on this topic, Jessica鈥檚 research explores the visual record, aiming to re-evaluate the role of theatre within Roman socio-political culture. Jessica finished her role as Project Administrator and Research Support听mid 2023 to focus on the finalisation of her PhD.
Melanie Horstead, 果冻影院
Project Administrator and Research Assistant 2023 -
Melanie took over the Project Administrator role for the FRRAnt Team in 2023.听Melanie is a project management professional and conference organiser at 果冻影院 (果冻影院). 听She helps establish and develop projects from concept through to operation and delivery and liaises with teams to help produce post-project impact reports. She works directly with external partner organisations, and is adept at partnership management and building relationships with individual stakeholders and teams alike. She has extensive experience of managing and orchestrating bi-lingual conferences in English and French as part of her Project Administrator roles at 果冻影院.听She manages and oversees听project budgets and deals with the logistics of various systems and processes for research projects at 果冻影院. She听is also responsible for website content management. Melanie holds a Masters in 'Africa and Development' from the University of Birmingham.
Dr Tom Couch, 果冻影院
Senior Research Software Developer
Tom joined 果冻影院 in 2013 as a Research IT Facilitator where his听job was to help researchers to use IT in their research through training, writing documentation, and direct support. Over time the direct support increasingly involved writing code, so in 2021 he听joined the ARC collaborations team as a Research Software Developer. FRRAnt was his听first project in this role, and he has听loved helping to enable the platform to evolve and support the research team ever since.
Amanda Ho-Lyn, 果冻影院
Research Web Application Developer
Amanda joined 果冻影院 ARC shortly after completing her听masters in 2021. She听joined FRRAnt in 2022 and she has听found it to be both fulfilling and challenging in (mostly) equal measures. Amanda has really enjoyed working with the team and she听looks forward to crafting new features and solutions for them.
Dr Jonathan Cooper, 果冻影院
Head of Research Software Engineering
Jonathan leads on the Software Engineering aspects of Project FRRAnt and听leads Research Software Engineering work at 果冻影院, supporting researchers in developing high quality software to improve the reproducibility, sustainability and impact of their research. His听research in this space is focused on designing the career structures and ways of working to allow these and other research technology professionals to flourish, and so maximise the effectiveness and impact of research, both at 果冻影院 and internationally.
Previously he has听worked on the application of software engineering to computational biology, mostly using domain-specific languages to describe mathematical models of biology, and developing the tools required to make these more usable for researchers.
Project FRRAnt Academic Advisory Board
Professor Tim Cornell (University of Manchester); Professor Wolfgang de Melo, (Wolfson College, University of Oxford); Professor Mario De Nonno (University of Roma3); Professor Marcus Deufert (Leipzig University); Professor Carlotta Dionisotti (King鈥檚 College London); Professor Alessandro Garcea (Sorbonne University, Paris); Professor Adam Gitner (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t); Professor Dario Mantovani (Coll猫ge de France); Professor Gesine Manuwald (果冻影院); Professor Claudia Moatti (University Paris 8- University of Southern California); Professor Glenn W. Most (University of Chicago, and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin); Professor Christopher Smith, (University of St. Andrews, Society of Antiquaries Scotland, the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Society of Arts; Professor Catherine Steel (Glasgow University); Professor J枚rg R眉pke (Erfurt University); Dr Benet Salway, (果冻影院); Professor Christopher Smith, (University of St. Andrews, Society of Antiquaries Scotland, the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Society of Arts; Professor Katharina Volk (Columbia University, New York).