Roman history and Latin literature of the Republic and early Principate, with a special interest in time, religion, and institutions of literary culture
Elected 2016
Latin literature of the Republic and Principate, especially satire; poetics; cultural history of Rome
The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts
Classics, in particular: ancient and medieval ideas on language; the use of value terms in public debate; cognitive approaches to Greek literature; innovation processes in antiquity, in particular their 'anchoring'
