I am an ERC postdoctoral research fellow, part of the ERC project PhiSci: Philology as Science in 19th-Century Europe. Before coming to Ghent, I was trained in history and classical languages at the Free University of Berlin (BA 2016, MA 2018) and at the University of Oxford (DPhil in Classical languages and literatures, 2022).
In the PhiSci project, I engage with the history of Classical philology in early 19th-century Germany, setting philological techniques against the backdrop of the theoretical debates surrounding them and of the multi-national scholarly networks practicing them. I have been focusing particularly on the figure of Friedrich August Wolf (1759–1824), who stands as a founding figure in the history of philology. With one article (Classical Receptions Journal, 2024: 10.1093/crj/clae015) I show the forgotten substratum of Latin learning in his epoch-making programmatic essay Darstellung der Alterthums-Wissenschaft. Another, which will feature in a volume I am co-editing, recovers Wolf’s engagement in debates on Latin as a language of scholarship in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
I continue to hold the discipline and the history of the discipline together. My first book, Reading Quintilian. Didactic Authority in the Institutio oratoria, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press (20. February 2025, in the Oxford Classical Monographs series).
