Maria PlazaAssociate professor
Teaching
A. Undergraduate level:
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• all modules of Latin I, as well as the web course Prima Latina, which is a non-campus equivalent to the first half of Latin I (15 academic points); • Latin II: the modules ”Rhetoric and grammar”, ”Classical Latin: poetry”, ”Roman historians”; • Latin III: the modules ”Golden-Age prose”, ”Classical Latin: prose and poetry”, ”Review essay”; • Candidate and Magister levels: examinator for all self-study modules. Supervisor of some essays at these levels. B. Graduate level: • Responsible for the Latin Seminar at SU. This is a common seminar for Advanced-level students, postgraduate students, and scholars of Latin. • Head supervisor for doctoral student Per Sandström. Topic: ”Lucubratiunculae Calpurnianae. Two studies in the Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus”. |
Research
literary studies; Roman literature, esp. satire, the novel, and historiography; humour studies
Research projects
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Ongoing projects Good and evil. Literary images of morality in Caesar and Sallust. Financed by the Swedish Research Council 2010-2014. |
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Concluded projects Satura ridet. The function of humour in Roman verse satire. Financed by the Swedish Research Council 2001-2004. |
Scientific assignments
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• Chairman of the editorial board of Studia Latina Stockholmiensia, Stockholm UP • Member of the organizing committee for the Seminar in Pre-Modern Literature at SU (”Äldretextseminariet”) • Subject representative (Latin) at the Dept. for Romance Studies and Classics, SU |