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Florence Klein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient Languages and Cultures at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Lille. She teaches Latin language and Greco-Roman literature and conducts research in poetics and gender studies at the HALMA laboratory (UMR 8164 - HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND LITERATURE OF THE ANCIENT WORLDS).
Her educational background includes graduate studies in classical literature at the École Normale Supérieure on rue d'Ulm and the University of Paris Sorbonne. She has international experience, having served as a Visiting Lecturer at Brandeis University in Massachusetts during 2001-2002.
Dr. Klein's research focuses on Ovid's work and its reception, Latin poetry of the late Republican and Augustan periods, Hellenistic poetry and its reception in Rome, poetics of genres and intertextuality, and gender studies. Her research interests are deeply interconnected, examining how ancient literary traditions dialogued across time and genre, with particular attention to questions of gender representation.
In 2024, she successfully defended her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) at the University of Paris Sorbonne with a project entitled "Latin and Greek Literatures in Dialogue. Intertextuality, Questions of Poetics and Gender Studies." Her doctoral dissertation, "Posidippus in Rome. Intertextual Presence of the Milanese Collection in Augustan Poetry," is currently being revised for publication by Peeters in the Hellenistica Groningana series. She is also co-editor of the "Dictionary of Images of Poetics in Antiquity" (Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2025).
Dr. Klein maintains an active research notebook "Alexandria-Rome" on the Hypotheses platform, exploring the connections between these two important centers of ancient learning and culture.
