Notes on Contributors
Mario Baumann is Juniorprofessor für Kulturen der Antike/Griechische Literatur at the Technische Universität Dresden. He is the author of Bilder schreiben: Virtuose Ekphrasis in Philostrats Eikones (De Gruyter, 2011) and Welt erzählen: Narration und das Vergnügen des Lesers in der ersten Pentade von Diodors Bibliotheke (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020). His research interests are in Greek historiography, narratology and everything that has to do with literature and the senses. He has led a research project, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), on Herodian’s History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus and has recently been awarded a DFG grant for a project on the representation of smells in ancient Greek literature.
Evert van Emde Boas is Associate Professor in Classical Philology at Aarhus University. His research focuses on the application of cognitive, linguistic, and narratological approaches to ancient Greek literature. He is also interested in interdisciplinary research and experimental studies of responses to literature and drama. Among his publications are Language and Character in Euripides’ Electra, Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (co-edited with Koen De Temmerman), and The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (as lead author).
R. Gillian Glass currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University and holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of British Columbia. Gillian is fascinated by stories of encounters between human and otherworldly beings (epiphany); these stories reveal cultural assumptions about socially constructed categories (e.g., insider/outsider, man/woman), and how the motif of epiphany is used across cultures to reinforce or shift social paradigms. She analyses the socio-literary significance of epiphany in Jewish, Christian, and Hellenic literature from the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, using comparative and/or narratological methods.
Jonas Grethlein is Professor of Greek Literature at Heidelberg University. His books include Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity (2017); The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception (2021); Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory (2023). He received an ERC starting grant in 2012 and the Leibnizpreis in 2024.
Luuk Huitink is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the board of the Anchoring Innovation research project. His research focuses on linguistic, narratological and cognitive approaches to Greek literature, in particular historiography and the rhetorical tradition. He is one of the authors of The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (Cambridge 2019), and of a commentary on Xenophon’s Anabasis III (Cambridge 2019) as well as one of the editors of Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece: Under the Spell of Stories (Oxford 2020) and Social Psychology and the Ancient World: Methods and Applications (to appear with Brill).
Irene J.F. de Jong is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek, University of Amsterdam. She has published extensively on Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, and ancient narrative in general. She is the editor of a multi-volume history of ancient Greek narrative, of which five volumes have appeared so far, dealing with Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives, Time, Space, Characterization, and Speech (Brill, 2004–2022). She is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy, the Norwegian Academy, the Academia Europaea, and the British Academy. Recent publications include Homer Iliad Book XXII (CUP, 2012) and Narratology and Classics. A Practical Guide (OUP, 2014).
Benedek Kruchió is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Classics, Yale University; he has previously held positions in Cambridge and Heidelberg. While he is finishing a monograph on Heliodorus’s Aethiopica and a co-edited volume on allegory in the imperial period, his attention is shifting towards the poetry and hagiography of late antiquity.
Alexander C. Loney is Associate Professor of Classical Languages at Wheaton College. Previously, he was an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow in Classics and a fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. He is the author of The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey (Oxford, 2019) and co-editor (with S. Scully) of The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod (Oxford, 2018). He has also published articles on Homer, Hesiod, Greek lyric poetry and tragedy. Currently he is working on nostalgia and ethical thought in archaic Greek poetry.
Saskia Schomber is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich. She is currently preparing the publication of her PhD dissertation on the narrative aesthetics of Triphiodorus and Colluthus. Her research focuses on late Greek epic, and literary theory, esp. postclassical narratology and narrative embodiment, and critical approaches to Classics. She is co-editing a German translation of Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ treatise De compositione verborum and a collected volume on Queer Temporalities in Classical Reception.
Aldo Tagliabue is an Assistant Professor of ancient Greek Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on cognitive narratology and Second Sophistic literature. He has published a monograph on Xenophon’s Ephesiaca (2017, Barkhuis), and he is one of the editors of Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece: Under the Spell of Stories (Oxford 2020). He is currently completing his second monograph on the imagination of the gods through narrative in Second Sophistic literature. He received an Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers in 2021.