DrAnne Rogerson

Project Opportunities

Title: Latin literature and ancient history

Opportunity synopsis:

The main focus of my work is Virgil’s epic poem, the Aeneid. I am interested in Virgil’s representation of character and the ways in which he uses characters to talk about the past and future of the Roman people. I also work on the commentary tradition on Virgil, from late antiquity to the present, and on the influence of the Aeneid on later writing, from Renaissance Italy, to the Golden Age of detective fiction and beyond.

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Dr Rogerson's major current project is a book on how modern female novelists use Latin and Latin learning to think through questions about the education of women and women's role in society. She is also part of a team working on an Australian Research Council funded project on the Latin literature written in North Africa while it was a Vandal kingdom (5th century AD).