Gesine Manuwald

Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin in the Department of Greek and Latin, University College London. Since 2007 she has taught and conducted research at UCL, serving as Head of Department (2012–2024) and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities (2021–2024). She is also President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies, Honorary Librarian at the Institute of Classical Studies Library, and co-editor of several leading book series and the journal Classical Review.

Education:

• Staatsexamen in Classics and English, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (1997)
• PhD (on Valerius Flaccus), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (1998)
• Habilitation (on Roman fabula praetexta), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (2000)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2010) and Senior Fellow (2015)
• Principal Fellow, Higher Education Academy
• Recognised Research Supervisor, UK Council for Graduate Education
• Recognised Senior Advisor, UK Advising and Tutoring Association

Research encompasses Roman Republican and early Imperial literature and its afterlife. She has published extensively on Cicero’s speeches, Roman drama, Roman epic, and the reception of antiquity in Neo-Latin poetry, modern literature and opera. Current projects include commentaries on Cicero’s Philippics, editions of fragmentary Roman tragedians, and studies of Baroque Latinity.

Awards & Honours:

• Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2001)
• Heisenberg-Stipendium, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2003–2007)
• Elected Member, Academia Europaea (2014)
• Member: Society for Neo-Latin Studies (President since 2014), Classical Association, Roman Society, Vergilian Society, American Philological Association, Mommsen-Gesellschaft

She supervises PhD students in Republican and early Imperial Latin literature and teaches BA and MA modules on Latin language, literature and reception. Editorial commitments include co-editorship of Classical Review, Tragicorum Romanorum Fragmenta, Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception, and Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law.