Gesine Manuwald

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Gesine Manuwald is currently a Professor of Latin and Head of the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London. She focuses on Roman drama, epic and oratory (particularly Cicero) and the reception of Roman literature, especially Neo-Latin poetry.

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Gesine Manuwald studied Classics and English at the University of Freiburg, with a year as an affiliate student at UCL. [1] She was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis in 2001 for work on classical philology. [2] [3] From there she did her Ph.D. on Valerius Flaccus and a post-doctoral habilitation on the Roman dramatic genre fabula praetexta. During this time she also worked on a research project on Roman tragedy, which then led to a five-year research fellowship in which she was able to produce her commentary of Cicero's Philippics 39 (2007). [1]

In 2007, Gesine Manuwald joined the UCL Department of Greek and Latin. [1] She became a member of the Academia Europaea in 2014. [4]

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  2. "Gesine Manuwald — University of Freiburg". www.uni-freiburg.de. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
  3. "DFG, German Research Foundation - Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize". www.dfg.de. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
  4. "Academy of Europe: Manuwald Gesine". www.ae-info.org. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 2017-07-31.