Biography
Thorsen received her PhD in Latin from the University of Bergen in 2007,with a thesis entitled "Scribentis imagines in Ovidian authorship and scholarship". [4] [5] The thesis was a study of the authenticity of Heroides 15 (the Epistula Sapphus). [6] [7] [8] She had earlier completed her Master᾽s thesis in Latin at the University of Oslo. [9]
She has been employed by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology since 2009,first as a postdoctoral fellow funded by the Research Council of Norway (with a project entitled "The heterosexual tradition of homoerotic poets" [10] ),as an associate professor from 2014–2019 and as a full professor from 2019. [11] She was the first Scandinavian editor of a volume on a classical topic in the Cambridge Companions series,with her edited volume The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy. [12]
Thorsen was selected for the Young Academy of Europe in 2019. [13] She is the academic project leader for Kanon,Gyldendal᾽s series for Norwegian translations of previously untranslated works from Greek and Roman antiquity. [14] She published the first translations of Ovid᾽s love elegies into Norwegian,with scholarly introductions and notes,in elegiac couplets. [15] In 2024,she published the first full translation of Ovid᾽s Metamorphoses into Norwegian. [16] She has also published a novel,Pia Fraus (2004).
She is one of two editors (along with Laurel Fulkerson) of Ovidius,the journal of The International Ovidian Society (from 2024–2026). [17] [18]
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