Bresson, Adrien (Saint Etienne)
Adrien Bresson, a former student of the École normale supérieure de Lyon, is professeur agrégé de lettres classiques. Holding a PhD in Latin language and literature, as a member of the HiSoMA laboratory, and director of the Tr@boulescollection at Chemins de Tr@verse publishing, Adrien Bresson conducts research on self-writing in the poetry of Ausonius and Claudian in the fourth century AD. His approach integrates contemporary literary theories, drawing in particular from gender studies and ecocriticism.
His most recent articles, either published or in press—particularly for Vita Latina, Vox Patrum, and Methodos—focus on the limits of comedy in the sexual epigrams of Ausonius and Claudian, the gendered dimension of their poetry, and the personal aspects of Claudian’s poems. After teaching in secondary education, Adrien Bresson is now an ATER (temporary teaching and research associate) at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Étienne, where he leads the junior research group GRAPHÉ.
Coert, Jean (Dresden)
Dr. Jean Coert is a research assistant at the University of Dresden. In his current habilitation project, he is investigating the mechanisms of shaming and defamation of sexual deviance in Attic rhetoric and the adoption of these practices in Rome. His first results were recently published in an article in the Historische Zeitschrift, in which he proves the existence of same-sex marriages in the Greco-Roman world. Prior to his current project, he studied history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. There and at the University of Bremen, he worked on his doctoral thesis with a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. In this dissertation, he formulated the thesis that Augustus formed the client rulers of the Imperium Romanum into a new imperial elite.
Delignon, Bénédicte (Paris Nanterre)
Bénédicte Delignon is professor of Latin language and literature at Paris Nanterre University and a member of the research team ArScAn-THEMAM (Textes, Histoire et Monuments, de l'Antiquité au Moyen Âge, UMR 7041).
A specialist in the Augustan period, she is particularly interested in the interactions of poetry with its historical, political and cultural contexts. She has coedited several collective works, including: Le poète irrévérencieux, modèles hellénistiques et réalités romaines (B. Delignon and Y. Roman (eds.), De Boccard, 2009); Le poète lyrique dans la cité antique: les Odes d’Horace au miroir de la poésie grecque archaïque (B. Delignon, N. Le Meur and O. Thévenaz (eds.), De Boccard, 2016). She is also the author of two monographs on Horace: Les Satires d’Horace et la comédie gréco-latine: une poétique de l’ambiguïté (Peeters, 2006) and La morale de l’amour dans les Odes d’Horace: poésie, philosophie et politique (S.U.P., 2019) which has won the François-Millepierres award of the Académie française.
Benjamin Demassieux is a doctoral student at the University of Lille, attached to the HALMA - UMR 8164 - History, Archaeology and Literature of the Ancient Worlds laboratory. He is preparing a thesis in ancient languages and literature on the Poetics of abduction in late Greco-Latin poetry (4th-6th century) under the supervision of Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic and Vincent Zarini. Her research focuses on the writing of the abduction of divinities and mortals through a corpus of five works from this period. The aim of his work is to examine the extent to which these poems on abduction share common compositional characteristics and fit into their writing contexts. He is also involved in popularizing knowledge of Antiquity for younger audiences through his collaboration with Belles Lettres. His broad areas of research concern the reception of literature and Antiquity in media cultures and transmedia.
dos Santos, Gilson Charles (Brasilia)
Gilson Charles dos Santos - Assistant Professor of Latin at the University of Brazilia (Brazil), where he does research on Ancient Rhetoric, Historiography and Latin Epic Poetry. He is a member of the administrative team of the Brazilian Rhetoric Association (2023-2025) and of the Brazilian Association of Latin Professors. He has published the Brazilian translation of Cicero's Topics (2019) and Phillipics (2021); and is currently preparing the first Brazilian translation of Tacitus' Annals and Silius Italicus' Punica, as well as the edition of a new translation of Apuleius' novel Metamorphoseon (or The Golden Ass).
Enache, Cătălin (Vienna)
Cătălin Enache is a Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy and Classics at the University of Vienna. He studied Philosophy and Classics at the University of Bucharest and wrote his PhD at the University of Vienna. He published articles on Greek philosophy, especially Platon, and Greek medicine, especially Hippocrates.
Hernández, Justo (Universidad de La Laguna)
Justo Hernández is MD (University of Seville, 1982). Afterwards he got a Master on Classical studies and Humanities in Italy (1986) and then he decided to dedicate himself to the History of Medicine, training in the departments of History of Medicine at the University of Navarra and at the University of Valencia (1986-1992). In 1992 he obtained a position as professor of History of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain) where he remains until now. In 1997 he defended his doctoral thesis about Spanish Renaissance Medicine in the University of Valencia. His main research line deals with Renaissance medicine with several publications about this subject.
Manousakis, Nikos (Academy of Athens)
Dr. Nikos Manousakis earned degrees in Classics and Linguistics from the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens. His PhD focused on applying Machine Learning methods to the Aeschylean corpus.
He has taught Ancient Greek and Latin language and literature, as well as Computational Linguistics, at the University of Athens. In addition, he has worked as a dramaturge and assistant director in Greek drama and contemporary theatre productions, including the Epidaurus Festival. He has published two books and several papers in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, while also leading research projects on Greek drama in collaboration with institutions such as the National Theatre of Greece. Currently, he serves as a tenured Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens.
Marcuello, Oroel (Zaragoza)
Oroel Marcuello is a PhD student at the University of Zaragoza, writing a thesis on Martial’s Book X. In 2018 he obtained a full scholarship at the Academia Vivarium Novum in Rome. His research interests include Latin literature, the philosophy of the body, monster theory, and ancient sexuality. He wrote an MSt thesis on the use of bodily fluids in character construction in Petronius’ Satyrica. He has also been actively involved in the renewal of Latin and Greek teaching: since 2020, he has been a member of Oxford Latinitas and is currently Head of the Greek Department.
Ana Isabel Martín Ferreira (University of Valladolid)
Full Professor of Latin Philology at University of Valladolid.
She obtained her PhD in Classical Philology in 1993. Her teaching activity has always been linked to the University of Valladolid (Spain). The main lines of research have involved the analysis, edition and translation of medical texts (Celsus, Constantine the African, Iohannes de Sancto-Paulo, Giovanni Mercuriale and Amatus Lusitanus, among others). Since 2015 she has been coordinating the Speculum Medicinae group, a GIR (recognised research group) at University of Valladolid (2005): https://speculummedicinae.uva.es/
She has also participated in producing the Diccionario de andrología, ginecología y embriología (DILAGE, Brepols-FIDEM, Barcelona, 2018), which constitutes a milestone in research into Latin medical lexicography, authoring several hundred lemmas and revising the text.
She is currently co-directing the project which is editing and translating into Spanish Curationum medicinalium centuriae VII by the Portuguese Jewish physician Amatus Lusitanus (1511-1568).
Moore, Ralph (Dublin)
Moore is a recent PhD graduate of Trinity College Dublin, specialising in the history and archaeology of Late Iron Age and Roman north-west Europe, most particularly the region of Gaul. Moore’s work examines the impact of Roman conquest and imperialism on the indigenous populations through Marxist, Feminist, and Post-Colonial lenses, as well as the reception of their legacy in modern popular culture. Moore's doctoral thesis examined the ways in which structures of class and social power among the peoples of the Rhône Basin were transformed by annexation by Rome over the late second and first centuries BCE. At present, Moore is working to acquire postdoctoral funding for a project on resistance and rebellion in the context of Gallo-Roman and Romano-British power and class structures in the first century CE.
Neger, Margot, (University of Cyprus)
Margot Neger gained her PhD from the University of Munich in 2011 with a thesis on Martial’s epigrams (published as Martials Dichtergedichte, Tübingen 2012). After some years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Munich and Salzburg, she completed her habilitation in 2019 in Salzburg with a monograph on Pliny the Younger (Epistolare Narrationen, Tübingen 2021). In 2019 she joined the Department of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Cyprus where she is currently an Associate Professor of Latin. In addition to ancient epigram and epistolography, her research-interests include Valerius Maximus, ancient fable, Christian poetry, as well as generic interaction, ancient literary criticism, narratology and intertextuality. Apart from the above mentioned monographs and various articles and book-chapters she has also published a collective volume on Intertextuality in Pliny’s Epistles together with Spyridon Tzounakas (Cambridge 2023).
Recio Muñoz, Victoria (Universidad de Valladolid)
Associate Professor of Latin Philology at University of Valladolid.
She obtained her PhD in Classical Philology in 2013 (University of Valladolid - University of Salamanca). She completed her training at CSIC in Madrid, at SISMEL in Florence (Italy) and at Department of History of Science at Harvard University (MA, USA). She has worked as Associate Lecturer in the area of History of Science (University of Valladolid) and from 2022 she is Professor in the Department of Classical Philology (University of Valladolid).
She is part of the Research Group Speculum medicinae, directed by Ana I. Martín Ferreira (https://speculummedicinae.uva.es/) at University of Valladolid.
Her main lines of research are the Critical Edition of Latin Medical Texts and Latin Lexicography. She participated in producing Diccionario de andrología, ginecología y embriología (Brepols-FIDEM, Barcelona, 2018) and is currently working on the edition and translation into Spanish of Curationum Medicinalium Centuriae by physician Amatus Lusitanus (1511-1568).
Ronchini, Lorenzo (Padova)
From November 2023, Lorenzo Ronchini is a postdoctoral researcher at the Università degli Studi di Padova, after obtaining his PhD in the framework of a cotutelle de these between the Università “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti – Pescara and the Universität Zürich (2019-2023). His doctoral dissertation, which he is now in the process of publishing as a monograph, is devoted to Galen’s Platonic quotations, considered under multiple and interrelated perspectives: as part of the indirect tradition of Plato’s oeuvre, as instances of the Galenic interpretation and use of Plato, and as result of Galen’s practical work on Plato’s texts, involving different stages of reading, selecting, copying, memorizing. He pursued through this project an interest in the dynamics of indirect tradition, which already inspired a former research on the fragments of Euripides’ Phrixos I and II. In the academic year 2025-2026, he will be a fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University).
Sterbenc Erker, Darja (HU Berlin)
Darja Šterbenc Erker is Privatdozentin at the Humboldt University Berlin as well as Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She has taught and conducted several research projects at universities in Erfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Vienna, Ljubljana and at the Humboldt University Berlin. She earned her full professorship qualification (Habilitation) at the University of Erfurt (2007) for History of Ancient Religions and in 2012 for Classical Philology at the Humboldt University Berlin, where she is currently working on research project “Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars: Religious Deviance and Literary Interactions” funded by German Research Foundation. Her research focuses on Latin literature, ancient religions, gender studies and literary theories. She has published numerous articles and is author of monographs Quid lacrimis (2002 cf. Ljubljana, on gendered roles in Roman funerary cult), Religiöse Rollen römischer Frauen in ‘griechischen’ Ritualen (Steiner 2013) and Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti: Religious Innovation and The Imperial Family (Brill 2023). Also, she is sole editor of Gender Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften: Frauenbild im Wandel (VWT 2015) and co-editor (with G. Schörner) of Medien religiöser Kommunikation (Steiner 2008).
Tsakou, Effrosyni (Lille)
Effrosyni Tsakou is a scholar specialising in ancient Greek language and literature, with a particular focus on the depiction of courtesans (hetairai) in ancient Greek epistolary literature and the broader concepts of female sexuality in antiquity. She is currently a visiting member at the UMR 8164 - HALMA research centre at the University of Lille and also teaches at the same institution. She completed her PhD at the University of Lille in June 2024, earning the European Label distinction. Her doctoral research examined the portrayal of hetairai in the works of Alciphron, Philostratus, and Aristaenetus, exploring their literary characteristics and the reception of these fictional letters within the intellectual framework of the Second Sophistic. Alongside her research, Effrosyni has taught in a variety of fields while actively contributing to international academic projects.
Vasconcellos Amaral, Flavia (Winnipeg (Canada))
Educated at the University of São Paulo (MA and PhD), Flavia was a lecturer at UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, 2018) before becoming postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Toronto (2019-2023). From 2021 to 2023, she has lectured at York University, Brock University, Saint Mary’s University, and the University of Winnipeg where she is currently an assistant professor (tenure track) in the Department of Classics. In addition, she has been a research fellow at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on Greek epigram, mainly its erotic, funerary, and sympotic forms, female epigrammatists, and translation of classical texts as a means of reception. She has published papers and book chapters on such topics as well as specific epigrammatists, namely Meleager, Martial, Posidippus, and Nossis.
Willms, Lothar (HU Berlin)
After studying Classical and French Philology at the Universities of Trier and Poitiers (1993–99) and completing his PhD in Classics at the University of Trier (2004), he earned his full professorship qualification (Habilitation) at the University of Heidelberg (2011) where he worked an assistant (2004–10) and non-tenured senior lecturer (2011–19). After a Feodor-Lynen research fellowship, sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, at Brown University (Providence, RI) and the University of Heidelberg (2017–20), he is currently a Heisenberg fellow at Humboldt University, Berlin (2022–). Main research interests: Ancient Drama, Historical Linguistics of Latin and Greek, Gender studies and Ancient Philosophy with a special focus on Imperial Stoicism. Main publications: Epiktets Diatribe Über die Freiheit (4.1) – Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar (2011/12), Klassische Philologie und Sprachwissenschaft. (2013), Transgression, Tragik und Metatheater: Versuch einer Neuinterpretation des antiken Dramas (2014).
Zhang, Huiling (Oxford)
Huiling Zhang is a DPhil candidate in Ancient History at the University of Oxford. She studied History at Peking University before receiving an MA in Ancient History from King’s College London and a Post-Baccalaureate from UCLA. Huiling’s research interests span various aspects of Roman social history, and she often adopts an interdisciplinary approach. Sitting at the intersection of Roman social and legal history, her dissertation looks at unofficial responses to crime in the Early Roman Empire. Key themes explored include the representation of criminals, practical crime prevention, and legal consciousness. Another major interest of hers is how criminals and sexual minorities are represented in Greek and Latin novels. (The paper she is presenting stems from this interest.)