Dr Helen Kaufmann
College Lecturer in Classics
Oriel College
Oxford
OX1 4EW
Dr Helen Kaufmann, lic. phil. (Basel), PhD (Fribourg)
Before joining Oriel in October 2010 as a stipendiary lecturer in Classics I taught Classics at Somerville College, St Hugh’s College, Camden School for Girls, the Ohio State University (USA) and the University of Fribourg (CH) and seminars on learning and teaching in Higher Education at the Humanities Division, Oxford. I also teach Ancient Greek at the Department for Continuing Education.
Teaching
Mods: Homer, Iliad; Virgil, Aeneid; Texts and Contexts; Unseen translations from Greek; Unseen translations from Latin; Latin prose composition; the literary aspects of Thucydides and the West and of Tacitus and Tiberius; Greek language (Russell); Latin language (Russell).
Greats: Greek literature of the 5th c. BC; Latin literature of the 1st c. BC; Early Greek Hexameter Poetry; Ovid.
Classics & English and Classics & Modern Languages: Latin authors; Greek authors; Epic link paper; Tragedy link paper.
Research Interests
I am particularly interested in Roman late antiquity, Latin poetry, reception and ancient religion. Current research projects include a chapter for Brill’s Companion on Statius (ed. by W. Dominik and C. Newlands) on the reception of Statius in late antiquity, a Commentary on Servius’ Commentary on Book 6 of Virgil’s Aeneid, an article comparing antique forms of preserving knowledge with modern encyclopedias and one on the reception of ancient witchcraft in the 20th Century.
Select Publications
Dracontius: Romul. 10 (Medea). Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar (Heidelberg, 2006).
‘Decolonizing the postcolonial colonizers: Helen in Derek Walcott’s Omeros’, in Ch. Martindale & R. Thomas (eds.), Classics and the Uses of Reception (Malden, 2006) 192-203.
‘Missing Hierarchy. The gods in Dracontius’ Medea (Romul. 10)’, Archivum Bobiense 27/28 (2005/2006) 79-101.
‘Intertextualität in Dracontius’ Medea (Romul. 10)’, MH 63 (2006) 104-114.
‘Virgil’s underworld in the mind of Roman late antiquity’, Latomus 69 (2010) 150-160.
‘Claudian 15.202f. and De raptu Proserpinae 1.19’, EIKASMOS 21 (21010) 303-307.
‘The learning objectives of Latin language classes’, http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:be57a483-8e5b-4bdb-b625-9291b2c83295.