Prof. Michèle Lowrie (Chicago)

"An Empire of Security and Care"

Prof. Michèle Lowrie is an Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the intersection of ideology and literary form in Roman literature and its reception. She is the author of Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (OUP 2009) and Horace's Narrative Odes (OUP 1997). In 2018, she delivered the J.H. Gray Lecture at the University of Cambridge on the subject of the idea of security in Roman thought and literature.

Chair: Victoria Rimell