Biography

 

Luise Frenkel

Luise Frenkel

  • Alumni
  • Brazil
  • 2007 PhD Divinity
  • Lucy Cavendish College

Since 2013, Assistant Professor in Classical Greek at DLCV-FFLCH/Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. As a Gates scholar, she received a Ph.D. in Divinity from the University of Cambridge in 2012. She also holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, USP, Brazil (2007). She has been awarded visiting fellowship from DFG research projects in Erfurt, Tübingen and Frankfurt, and also received pos-doc support from the British School at Rome, the Fondation Hardt and FAPESP. After being a Visiting Scholar at St Edmund’s College for almost ten years, she was awarded Visiting Fellowships for the last two years from Lucy Cavendish and for two years Visiting Fellow at Lucy Cavendish. Her research focuses on the Roman East in Late Antiquity, and on the transmission of Greek, Syriac, Ge'ez and Latin sources. Her current projects concern Christological polemical works, synodical and senatorial proceedings, acclamations and the construction of imperial authority. Other research interests are imperial and Byzantine hexametric poetry and education, and the medieval reception of classical and late-antique philosophy and theology in Greek, Syriac, Arab and Latin.