Victoria Rimell

Victoria Rimell (born 1974) is a British classicist and Professor of Latin at the University of Warwick. Her research spans a wide range of Roman authors and operates on the interface between classical philology and modern thought. Among her publications are books on Ovid, Martial and Petronius.

Victoria Rimell
Born (1974-04-03) April 3, 1974
Academic background
EducationKing's College, Cambridge
King's College, London
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineLatin Literature
InstitutionsRoma La Sapienza
Warwick University

Career

Rimell studied Classics at King's College, Cambridge where she received a BA and an MPhil degree. She then moved to King's College, London, graduating with a PhD in 2001. After working at University College, Oxford, and Cambridge University, she took up a position at Sapienza University of Rome in 2004.[1] Since 2016, she has worked at Warwick University as an Associate Professor and, from 2018, as a Professor.[2] She also serves on the council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.[3] In 2020, she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.[4]

Selected publications
  • Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction, Cambridge University Press, 2002
  • Ovid’s Lovers: Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 2006[5]
  • Martial’s Rome: Empire and the Ideology of Epigram, Cambridge University Press, 2008[6]
  • The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire’s Inward Turn, Cambridge University Press, 2015

References
  1. "Victoria Rimell". uniroma1.it. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  2. "Professor Victoria Rimell". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  3. "Council Members". romansociety.org. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  4. "Academy of Europe: Victoria Rimell". The Academy of Europe. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  5. James, Sharon. "(V.) Rimell Ovid's Lovers. Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination" (PDF). The Classical Review. 57: 402–4.
  6. Neger, Margot. "Rimell (V. ) Martial's Rome. Empire and the Ideology of Epigram" (PDF). The Classical Review. 60: 469–70.


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