Constanze Güthenke
Founding member of the Postclassicisms collective
Constanze Güthenke is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford and E. P. Warren Praelector in Classics at Corpus Christi College. She was trained both in Classics (BA Cambridge) and in European and Comparative Literature (MPhil Cambridge, DPhil Oxford), working especially on German and Modern Greek literary and cultural history. She taught for twelve years in the Classics Department at Princeton University (2002-2014), where she was also affiliated with the Program in Hellenic Studies. Her main research interests lie in the field of antiquity after antiquity, especially in questions of the disciplinary shape of Classics and critical histories of scholarship: why, and how, do classicists ask the questions they ask? She has published a monograph on the literary representations of contemporary Greece in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Placing Modern Greece, Oxford, 2008). Her second book, Feeling and Classical Philology: Studying Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Cambridge 2020) looks at the lasting rhetorical strategies and organizing metaphors of scholarship. She is interested in questions of scholarly community, ancient and modern, and currently has a research project on transnational aspects of scholarship, asking what happens to classical knowledge when it migrates between places and contexts (especially in Europe and America). She teaches on a wide range of topics and genres in Greek literature (tragedy, comedy, epic, philosophical dialogue, ancient biography) and their afterlife, as well as on Modern Greek literature and culture. She is also a founding member of the Postclassicisms collective (www.postclassicisms.org), and she was until recently editor in chief of the Classical Receptions Journal, published by Oxford University Press.