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Research interests
My research emerges at the intersections of classical, comparative and hybrid literatures. I work on ancient Greek and Latin languages and literature, with a focus on less overt traditions of antiquity in 20th- and 21st-century artistic thought (esp. Argentine, Canadian, French, Greek and Italian).
I am the author of Borges' Classics: Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman World (Cambridge, 2018, funded by the Leverhulme Trust), and volume editor of Anne Carson's Euripides: Takes on H of H Playbook (2021) and The Trojan Women (2021) (in press, Classical Antiquity 42:2, 2023), Anne Carson/ Antiquity (Bloomsbury, 2021) and The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers (Cambridge, 2014). My next edited collection, Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics (OUP, Classical Presences), is forthcoming in 2024.
I am currently completing a second monograph, on Indisiciplinary Classics: Anne Carson's Writings on Antiquity (for CUP), and undertaking research for a third monograph, on Hellenic Absences: Modern Archives of Erasure, Forgetfulness and Loss (for Classical Memories/ Modern Identities, OSUP).
I am also general editor of the monograph series Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing (Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Literary Studies blog).
Before arriving at Bristol in 2013, I held postdoctoral positions at St Andrews, Stanford, and UC Berkeley.
Fellowships and grants
2022-23– Research Fellowship, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard
2022-23 – University Research Fellowship, Bristol
2022 – Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (Fall Term)
2021-23 – British Academy Small Grant
2019 – Visiting Research Grant, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard
2016 – Visiting Grant, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard
2015-16 – Leverhulme Research Fellowship
2015-16 – Visiting Fellowship, Princeton
See webpage for more information.
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Research output
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Calvino's Lightness and the Future of Antiquity
Jansen, L., 19 Dec 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: California Italian Studies. 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics
Jansen, L. I., 2023, (In preparation) Oxford University Press.Research output: Book/Report › Edited book
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Anne Carson's Euripides: Takes on H of H (2021) and The Trojan Women (2021)
Jansen, L., 2023, (Submitted) In: Classical Antiquity. 42, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Prizes
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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant
Jansen, Laura (Recipient), 20 Mar 2020
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Research Fellowship, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard
Jansen, Laura (Recipient), 1 Feb 2023
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Activities
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Keynote lecture on "Lightness, quickness, multiplicity. Three memos for Classicists"
Laura I Jansen (Participant)
6 Apr 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk
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‘Classics and "Literatura incompleta": Borges’
Laura I Jansen (Participant)
28 May 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Global Classics
Laura Jansen (Participant)
31 Jan 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk