Dr Sebastian Matzner MA, PhD (Kings)

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Classics
P. S. Allen Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College

Corpus Christi College
Oxford,
OX1 4JF

sebastian.matzner@classics.ox.ac.uk

http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Dr-S-Matzner/

Profile

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Classics, based at the Faculty of Classics and Corpus Christi College. After undergraduate studies in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, Religious Studies and Comparative Literature at the universities of Marburg and Gießen (both Germany), I took an MA in Comparative Literature at King's College, London, where I went on to earn a PhD in Classics and Comparative Literature.

Research Interests

Literary theory (ancient and modern), Greek and Latin poetry, the classical tradition and classical receptions, acculturation and cultural interaction, Greek-German comparative studies, history of sexualities and queer studies

Selected Recent Publications

2008: Matzner, S. ‘Christianising the Epic - Epicizing Christianity. Nonnus' Paraphrasis and the Old Saxon Heliand in a Comparative Perspective. A Study into the Poetics of Acculturation' in Millenium: Yearbook on the Culture and History of the First Century C.E. 5 (2008), 111-146.
2008: Matzner, S. ‘Haunted by Paradise Lost: The Theme of Childhood in Eighteenth-Century Melancholy Writing' in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal 1 (2008), 120-135.
2010: Matzner, S. ‘From Uranians to Homosexuals: Philhellenism, Greek Homoeroticism and Gay Emancipation in Germany, 1835-1915' in Classical Receptions Journal 2.1 (2010), pp. 60-91, 60-91.
2011: Matzner, S. ‘Tomis Writes Back: Politics of Peripheral Identity in David Malouf's and Vintila Horia's Re-Narrations of Ovidian Exile' in J. Ingleheart (ed.) Two Thousand Years of Solitude. Exile after Ovid, Classical Presences, Oxford University Press, 307-324.

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