Victoria Rimell - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• 2001 University of London (King’s College): PhD (‘Context and Incorporation: Reading Bodies in Petronius’ Satyricon’)
  
• 1996 University of Cambridge: MPhil in Classics (Latin Literature)
  
• 1995 King’s College, Cambridge: BA (MA) in Classics (First Class)

Academic Positions

• 2018 Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Dept. of Classics, University of Warwick
  
• 2016 - 2018 Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Dept. of Classics, University of Warwick
  
• 2007 - 2015 Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature (tenured), Dept. of Classical Letters, Sapienza University of Rome (National Abilitation to Full Professor, November 2014)
  
• 2004 - 2007 Visiting Professor of Classics, Sapienza University of Rome
  
• 2002 - 2004 Newton Trust Lecturer in Classics, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics, Girton and Clare Colleges
  
• 2000 - 2002 Stevenson Junior Research Fellow in Classics, University College Oxford

Other Academic Positions

• 2013 - 2016 American Academy in Rome: Arts and Humanities Advisor
  
• 2012 - 2016 Honorary Research Associate, University College London, Department of Greek and Latin
  

Current Administrative Roles

• 2016 Tutor for Admission
  
• 2017 Director of Research
  
• 2016 Coordinator for joint degrees in Classics and English / Classical Civilisation and Philosophy

Publications

Authored Books:

1. (2015) The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics. Empire’s Inward Turn. Cambridge University Press.

2. (2008) Martial’s Rome. Empire and the Ideology of Epigram. Cambridge University Press.

3. (2006) Ovid’s Lovers. Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination. Cambridge University Press.

4. (2002) Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction. Cambridge University Press.

Edited and co-edited books:

1. (2017) (With Markus Asper) Imagining Empire. Political Space in Hellenistic and Roman Literature. Winter Press, Heidelberg.

2. (2007) Seeing Tongues, Hearing Scripts. Orality and Representation in the Ancient Novel. Ancient Narrative Supplement 5. Gröningen.

Articles and chapters [selection]:

1. (forthcoming) ‘The intimacy of wounds: care of the other in Seneca’s Consolatio ad Helviam matrem’. American Journal of Philology.

2. (forthcoming) ‘Locus, dislocation and the practice of literary theory’ in N.Worman and J.Connolly (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism, Oxford.

3. (forthcoming) 'The groove in Ovid's Remedia' in T.Geue and E.Giusti (eds.) Unspoken Rome. Cambridge.

4. (2018) ‘After Ovid, after theory’ in special volume of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition, D.Orrells and T.Roynon (eds.), 1-24.

5. (2018) ‘The creative superiority of self-reproach: Horace’s Ars Poetica’ in S.Harrison and S. Matzner (eds.) Complex Inferiorities: Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature. Oxford University Press, 107-27.

6. (2018) ‘Rome’s Dire straits: claustrophobic seas and imperium sine fundo’ in W.Fitzgerald and E.Spentzou (eds.) The Production of Space in Latin Literature. Cambridge University Press, 261-87.

7. (2017) ‘I will survive (you): Martial and Tacitus on regime change’ in A. König and Christopher Whitton (eds.) Nervan, Trajanic and Hadrianic Interactions. Cambridge University Pres, 63-85.

8. (2017) ‘You are here: encounters in imperial space’ in V.Rimell and M.Asper (eds.) Imagining Empire. Political Space in Hellenistic and Roman Literature. Winter Press, Heidelberg. 1-10.

9. (2017) ‘Philosophy’s Folds: Seneca, Cavarero and the History of Rectitude’ in Hypatia 32.2: 768-83.

10. (2015) ‘In the mirror of time: Seneca and Neronian Culture’ in S.Bartsch-Zimmer and A.Schiesaro (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Seneca. Cambridge, 122-134.

11. (2013) 'The best a man can get: grooming Scipio in Seneca Epistle 86’ Classical Philology 108.1: 1-20.

12. (2012) 'The labour of empire: womb and world in Seneca's Medea’ in SIFC 105: 211-37.

13. (2009) ‘Letting the page run on: Poetics, rhetoric and noise in the Satyrica’ in I.Repath and J.Prag (eds) Petronius. A Handbook. Duckworth Press, London. 65-81.

14. (2007) ‘Petronius’ encyclopedia: Neronian lessons in learning – the hard way’ in J.Koenig and T.Whitmarsh (eds) Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire. Cambridge. 108-132.