Courant Research Centre "Education and Religion"

Research Interests

  • Latin pagan and Christian epics of Late Antiquity

  • Claudius Claudianus

  • Early imperial Latin literature

  • Doctoral project:
    Pagan Education and Literary Culture in the 4th century AD. A Study of the Underworld Topos in Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae between Classical paideia and Christian Setting
    (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, Prof. Dr. Peter Kuhlmann, and Prof. Dr. Heinz-Günther Nesselrath).

  • Graduate thesis:
    „aliud amico, aliud omnibus scribere“? Ein sprachlich-stilistischer Vergleich typologisch verwandter Briefe aus den Bücher I-IX und Buch X von Plinius dem Jüngere
    (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Margarethe Billerbeck).