Helen Lovatt | |
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| Nationality | British |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Games and realities in Statius, 'Thebaid 6' (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. G. W. Henderson |
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| Discipline | Classics |
| Institutions | University of Nottingham |
Helen V. Lovatt is Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. She is known in particular for her work on Latin epic literature especially from the Flavian period. [1]
Lovatt studied at Millfield and then read Classics at Pembroke College,Cambridge,where she was awarded her PhD in 2000 with a dissertation on Games and realities in Statius,'Thebaid 6'. [2] Lovatt lectured at Keele University before moving to a Junior Research Fellowship at Murray Edwards College,Cambridge. In 2003 Lovatt joined the department of Classics at the University of Nottingham. [1] Lovatt delivered her inaugural lecture as Professor of Classics,Epic Journeys,on 15 February 2017. [3] [4]
Lovatt's PhD work on the athletic games in Statius' Thebaid was published as Statius and Epic Games:Sport,Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid (Cambridge University Press,2005). In the book,Lovatt interpreted Statius' work as a microcosm of the whole epic tradition. [1] More recently,Lovatt has worked on the epic tradition in both Latin and Greek literature,publishing a book on vision in epic from Homer to Nonnus,The Epic Gaze:Vision,Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic (Cambridge University Press,2013) [5] and a co-edited work Epic Visions (Cambridge University Press,2013) with Caroline Vout which resulted from a conference in Nottingham in 2003. [6]
Lovatt currently works on classical reception,particularly in detective and children's literature,resulting in her co-edited volume Classical Reception and Children's Literature:Greece,Rome and Childhood Transformation (I. B. Tauris,2018) with Owen Hodkinson following a conference on the subject at the University of Wales,Lampeter in 2009. [1]
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