Involvement in and contributions to ongoing international collaborative projects (projecten van internationale samenwerking)
- Conference series "Nonnus of Panopolis in Context" (as organizer of the IVth NiC conference: https://www.grieks.ugent.be/events/nonnus-of-panopolis-poetry-at-the-crossroads/)
- Walking the Wire: Latin and Greek Late Antique Poetry in Dialogue (as project coördinator and editor together with Tine Scheijnen, and as contributor): collaborative book project (workshop 8-9 September 2016)
- Nonnus of Panopolis' Dionysiaca. A new english translation with introduction (as member of the team of translators, coordinated by Tim Whitmarsh, to be published with the University of California Press)
- Epische Bauformen (as contributing author, collaborative book project led by Christiane Reitz and Simone Finkmann)
- Narratology and Intertextuality: New Perspectives on Greek Epic from Homer to Tzetzes (as contributing author, collaborative book project led by Silvio Bär and Anastasia Maravela)
- Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative V (SAGN V): Speech (as a contributing author, collaborative book project, ed. Irene de Jong and Mathieu de Bakker).
- Studies in Nonnus' Paraphrase (as a contributing author, collaborative book project, ed. Gianfranco Agosti and Arianna Rotondo)
Activities abroad (buitenlandse verblijven)
"Visiting Scholar" of the Cambridge Faculty of Classics (June-August 2017)
“Academic Visitor” of the Oxford Faculty of Classics en het Corpus Christi Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity (April-June, 2013)
“Guest Lecturer for Greek” of the University College Cork (Ireland) voor de International Greek and Latin Summer School (June-July, 2011)
Past and future conference contributions (congresbijdragen)
- Lingua graeca als lingua franca! De Griekse taal door de eeuwen heen (Griekenlandcentrum 2019-2020), Gent, 15/04/20: "Non verbum e verbo sed sensum de sensu“: Grieks in vertaling door de eeuwen heen."
- Origins and Original Moments in Late Antique Literature, Ghent, 16-17/12/19. " Christodorus’ Statues (AP2) as a late antique ‘classical’ perspective on Greco-Roman culture."
- Symposium Literair Vertalen., Amsterdam, 1/11/19. "Klassieke talen in het Nederlands: een kritische blik op het vertaalveld."
- FIEC 2019, London 5-9/7/19. Panel: Speech Representation in Ancient Epic from Homer to Nonnus. "Adding Insult to Injury. Triumph Speeches on the Epic Battlefield from
Homer to Nonnus"
- Ghent, 26/2/19. Public lecture in the "Great Characters" series: Helena van Troje.
- Two myths and two languages. Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Poetry. 7-9/12/17, Vienna. "The narrator as exegete. A narratological analysis of speech introductions in Nonnus’ Paraphrase."
- Literature Squared. Metaliterary reflections in Late antiquity. 6-7/10/17, Salamanca. "The meaning of Eros. Cupid’s arrows and poetic creativity in Late Antique poetry."
- Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative V: Speech. 31/8-1/9/17, Amsterdam. "Speech in Nonnus".
- The Age of ‘Hero’s: Eroticism and Cultural History in Imperial Greek Epic. 3-4/7/17, Cambridge. "How (not) to address your beloved. Erotic speech and persuasion in Nonnus, Musaeus and Colluthus."
- Voices in Late Latin Poetry. 23-24/3/17, Oxford. "Claims of Novelty and Voices from the Past in the Aegritudo Perdicae"
- Non nisi grandia canto. The Transformation of Narrative Patterns in the EpicTradition. 15-17/12/16, Rostock. "Between Creativity and Continuity – The Tradition of Epic Poetry in Byzantine Literature." (with Kristoffel Demoen)
- Walking the Wire. Late antique Greek and Latin poetry in dialogue. 8-9/9/16, Gent. "A 'revival' of the 'epyllion' as a 'genre'? Genre awareness in short epic narrative from late antiquity."
- Ninth Celtic Conference in Classics. 22-25/6/16, Dublin. "A novelistic miniature epic? Issues of genre and tradition in Musaeus’ Hero and Leander."
- Narratology and Intertextuality: New Perspectives on Greek Epic from Homer to Tzetzes. 3-4/6/16, Oslo. "Epic heroes on a smaller scale? Characterization strategies in four imperial Greek 'epyllia': four faces of Odysseus."
- 2/3/16, Gent. "Mousaios, Hero & Leander" (book presentation)
- Griekenlandcentrum "Mythologie tot Orthodoxie". 9/12/15, Gent. "Mythologie voor christenen en bijbels in hexameters. Eruditie en traditie in de late oudheid."
- Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III. 17-19/09/15, Warsaw - paper presentation: "Breaking the fourth wall. On literariness and metalepsis in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca".
- Poetry and aesthetics of Late Antiquity. 3-4/09/15, Edinburgh - paper presentation: "Nonnus and Poetics: the Actaeon episode (D. 5.287-551)".
- NKV (Vlaams-Brabant) Themadag "Retoriek in de Oudheid". 6/12/14, Leuven - paper presentation: "Retoriek als entertainment. Argumentatie en manipulatie in de laatantieke epiek van Nonnus van Panopolis."
- Interuniversitary seminar Gent-Kent. 22/11/13, Gent. "Wars of words. Battle exhortations in Nonnus' rhetorical epic."
- Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II: Poetry, religion and society. 26-28/9/13, Vienna. “Speech, speakers and the absence of conversation in the Dionysiaca”.
- Classical Association Conference 2013 (Reading, April 3-6, 2013). “’ὄφρα τις εἴπῃ•’ Potential τις-speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca. A Homeric device revived”
- Methods and interpretation in Classics (Gent, February 22, 2013). “From Troy to India and from Medea to Morrheus. Nonnus’ rhetorical transformation of Homer and Apollonius in Dionysiaca 31-35”
- Jaarlijkse Hellenistendag (Amsterdam, January 28, 2012). “Verleiding voor dovemansoren. Over de Beiroetepisode in Nonnos’ Dionysiaka”
- Herfstbijeenkomst van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal-, Letterkunde en Geschiedenis (Gent, October 15, 2011). “Verleiding voor dovemansoren. Over de Beiroetepisode in Nonnos’ Dionysiaka”
- U4 Doctoral School “Myth, Memory and Mimesis.” (Rome, February 9-12, 2011). “The Dionysiaka by Nonnos of Panopolis as a protracted exercise in generic ‘ποικιλία’”
