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Professor Nora Goldschmidt is a Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. She specializes in classical reception studies, Latin poetry, and the intersection of ancient texts with modern literary and visual cultures. Goldschmidt holds a DPhil from Magdalen College, Oxford, and has held an AHRC Leadership Fellowship (2020–2022). Her research bridges antiquity and modernity, exploring topics such as biofiction, fragmentation, and classical influences on modernism.
Key works include Fragmentary Modernism (2023), analyzing classical fragments in early 20th-century culture, and Afterlives of the Roman Poets (2019), examining fictional biographies of ancient poets. She co-edited Tombs of the Ancient Poets (2018), exploring poet memorials as cultural sites.
Her current projects investigate Jewish-Hellenistic cultural intersections and the concept of 'lost' Latin literature. She edits the New Directions in Classics series (Bloomsbury) and serves on the Classical Reception Studies Network’s executive committee.
- Awards: AHRC Leadership Fellowship (2020–2022)
- Grants: ERC-funded ‘Living Poets’ project (2012–2015)
Supervises PhD students in Latin literature, classical reception, and modernist fragmentation. Active in outreach, delivering school talks on Virgil and classical reception.
