Jacqueline Fabre-Serris

Fabre-Serris was educated at École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses and completed her first doctoral degree at the University of Provence in 1984 on the reception of classical texts in Cesare Pavese's Dialoghi con Leucò.[4] She completed a second doctoral degree at the University Paris IV-Sorbonne (supervisor: Jean-Pierre Néraudau) in 1992 on Ovid's Metamorphoses, which she published in 1995.[5] After teaching at University Paris III, University Paris IV, and the University of Provence, she joined Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III as an Associate Professor in 1991, before becoming Professor of Latin Literature in 1998.[6]

Fabre-Serris is a member of the Council of the department “Humanities”. She is also co-editor of the academic journals "Dictynna",[7] which publishes contributions on classical literature and culture, and "EuGeStA", which looks at Greco-Roman literature and society through a gendered lens.[8] Among other scientific offices, she is in charge of the international network on “Augustan Poetry” and a member of the editorial committee "Savoirs et systèmes de pensée", an interdisciplinary project which collects studies from various fields across the Humanities:[9] Fabre-Serris is in charge of the section on Mythography.[6]

Fabre-Serris has worked extensively on Latin literature, ancient mythography, Ovid and the reception of ancient texts in modern literature. In the last decade, Fabre-Serris has focused more particularly on gender and Latin literature, contributing to the topic with articles,[10] book chapters,[11] and edited volumes.[12]

• Mythe et poésie dans les Métamorphoses d'Ovide. Fonctions et significations de la mythologiedans la Rome augustéenne (Klincksieck, Paris 1995)[13]
• Rome, l'Arcadie et la mer des Argonautes. Essai sur la naissance d'une mythologie des origines en Occident (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Lille 2008)[14]
• (ed.) Women and War in Antiquity (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2015)[15]
• "Un exemple de sélection, ordre et traitement mythographique chez Hygin: les fables 1–27", Polymnia 3, 2017, 26–52[16]
• "Sulpicia, Gallus et les élégiaques. Propositions de lecture de l'épigramme 3.13" Eugesta 7, 2017, 115–139[10]
• "Genre et Gender: usages et enjeux de l’emploi de durus chez les élégiaques", Eugesta 3, 2013, 209–309[17]
• "Desire and Rape in the Feminine:The Tales of Echo and Salmacis: An Ovidian Answer to Propertius 1.20?", Helios 46.2, 2018, 127-144[18]
• maximum Thebis (Romae?) scelus/maternus amor est (Oed. 629-30): Amour de la mère et inceste chez Sénèque in 'Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy' A. Sharrock and A. Keith (eds) (Toronto University Press, Toronto, 2020)

• University of Lille profile