Natalie Francis

Languages: English, Ancient Greek, Latin,

Spanish (professional), French (advanced reading)  

Learning: German (beginner), Italian (beginner)

Research focus: entanglements of academic satire and antiquity; Classical receptions of Hermes and Sappho in Victorian England; Virgil and the Aeneid haunting Germany and Italy; constructions of the Other in ancient Rome and the modern Italian diaspora; classical and contemporary receptions of epic and lyric; intellectual history of Classics (British, German, Italian), critical university studies

Concepts of interest: the Classicist as pseudo(auto-)biographical, (meta-)theatrical character; queer genealogies of Sappho (Chappell Roan; Christina Rossetti), Petrarchan hermeneutics of (be)longing; dark academia asethetic; posthumanism and rhizomatic reception; representations of non-visible disability (neurodivergence); classical Greek performance culture (Euripidean drama, Lesbian lyric)