Curriculum vitae:
| 2003 | Abitur (German university entrance qualification) |
| 2003-2008 | Teacher-training studies for grammar schools in Mathematics, Latin and Philosophy at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) |
| First State Examination Mathematics and Latin (November 2008) and Philosophy (July 2010) |
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since December 2008 |
Research assistant at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics in Modern and Pre-Modern Cultures” at the University of Münster |
| September- November 2009 | Visit at the University of Chicago |
Ph. D. project:
Virgil, Horace and Propertius about authorship
This dissertation project examines the concepts of authorship that are explicitly debated or that implicitly surface in the poetical texts of the Augustean poets Horace, Virgil and Propertius. Selected texts by Horace, Virgil and Propertius take centre stage, whose understanding of authorship is questioned inductively. The multiplicity of genres which the investigated texts relate to, e.g. by allusions and the imitation of preceding texts, permits the comparative analysis of bucolic, lyrical and elegiac speech in their synchronic use of authorship. In addition to an intra-literary authority which the narrators acquire through authentication strategies, e.g. by details about their autobiography or the sources of their knowledge or by implicitly expressing a claim to power, they transcend literary discourse and also lay interdiscursive claim to authority in other fields of knowledge, such as cult or politics.Research interests:
- Ancient aesthetics
- Theatricality and dramatisation in ancient texts
- Concepts of authorship
Function within the Cluster/Membership in Projects and Groups:
- Research assistant, Project B8: The Staging of Political Authorship in the Augustan Age
- Member of the study group Authorship
- Member of the study group Rhetoric of Violence
- Member of the study group Money as a Medium in Antiquity
Courses at the Institute of Classical Philology (in German):
Winter semester 2008-2009:
Reading tutorial: Cicero's Caesarian SpeechesGrammar tutorial
Summer semester 2009:
Reading tutorial: Seneca, Petron and Apuleius
Winter semester 2009/10
Reading tutorial: Horaz, Epistulae
Winter semester 2010/2011
Lateinisches Proseminar: „Über die Freundschaft“ (gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Alexander Arweiler)
Lectures
- Virgil's Eclogues on Authorship (University of Chicago, 05.11.2009)
- Aurum est profecto hoc, spectatores, comicum. Geld als Kommunikationsmedium in den Komödien des Plautus (Museum für Kommunikation Berlin, 21.01.2010)
- Autorschaft in augusteischer und spätantiker Dichtung. Die Eklogen Vergils und die Natalicia des Paulinus von Nola (with Anika Söltenfuß, Münster, 09.04.2010)
- „Musengunst verpflichtet. Zu einer Autorisierungsstrategie in den Oden des Horaz“ (Ianualia 2011, Wuppertal, 10.01.2011).
Contact
Meike WortmannInstitut für Klassische Philologie
Domplatz 20-22
Room 326
D-48143 Münster
Tel.: +49 251 83-23209
Fax: +49 251 83-23247
mwortmann@uni-muenster.de
