Team
Principal Investigator
Prof. Dr. Koen De Temmerman
Research interests
ancient fiction, biography, hagiography, ancient rhetoric, physiognomy, narratology, literary theory, character(ization)
Postdoctoral team members
Dr. Evelien Bracke
Project
Novel Echoes
Research interests
Greek mythology, Greek epic, The concept of metis, Inclusivity of Classics, The impact of Classics learning
Dr. Nicolò D'Alconzo
Project
Novel Echoes
Research interests
ancient Greek novels, fiction, ekphrasis, ancient reception of novels
Dr. Simon Ford
Project
Novel Echoes
Research interests
Syriac Literature and Christianity, Ecclesiastical History, hagiography, Canon Law, Social and Cultural History of the Late Antique Near East, Samaritan Studies
Dr. Claire Jackson
Project
Novel Echoes
Research interests
ancient fiction, ancient Greek novels, theory of fiction, reception of ancient novels in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Dr. Mara Nicosia
Project
Novel Echoes
Research interests
Aramaic studies, Reception of Greek literature and philosophy in the Near East, Syriac rhetoric, Near Eastern narratives, Greek into Syriac, Contact linguistics
Dr. Tine Scheijnen
Project
"The Romance between Greece and the West." Heroes and Heroines in Middle-English medieval narrative
Research interests
Greek and Latin epic from Homer to imperial times, western romance, heroic characterization, Troy narratives
Dr. Ellen Söderblom Saarela
Project
Novel Echoes
Research interests
medieval romances, the novelistic tradition, reception studies, narratology, theories of love and gender, Byzantine literature
Dr. Julie Van Pelt
Project
Miracle or Magic? The Figure of the 'Magos' in Byzantine Hagiography
Research interests
literary theory, hagiography, ancient fiction, theory of fiction, New Historicism, Byzantine literature
PhD students
Benjamin De Vos
Project
Reception of Sophistic and Platonic philosophy in the Pseudo-Clementine literature
Research interests
First and Second Sophistic, early Christian and apologetic literature, Classical and Hellenistic philosophy, literary theory
Olivier Demerre
Project
Latin to Greek. The latinity of the ancient Greek love novel
Research interests
ancient fiction, Greek and Latin interactions, Greek and Latin novels, Latin elegy
