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Greek, Latin, Ancient Literature and Culture Department of Language and Culture synnove.des.bouvrie@uit.no +47 99 29 65 21

Synnøve des Bouvrie

Job description

Professor of Ancient culture and literature

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Publications outside Cristin

Tragic Workings in Euripides. The anthropology of the genre. Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press 2018

Research interests

The ancient Greek theater, in particular tragedy

Greek mythology and religion

Anthropological approach to ancient celebrations

The Olympic games and its poetry

Gender and culture in Antiquity

Spoken Latin


Member of research group / centre

Medical Humanities    English content

CV

Curriculum Vitae 


Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, for the academic year 2011-2012

Professional career

Presently (from 2015) professor emerita in classical litterature and culture at the University of Tromsø, Norway

from 1990 full professor in classical litterature and culture at the University of Tromsø, Norway


1981 Associate professor at the University of Tromsø

1972 Assistant professor at the University of Tromsø

1999-2002   Director of The Norwegian Institute at Athens (research institute owned by the Norwegian universities)

2006-present President of Academia Borealis, Academy of Sciences and Letters of Northern Norway

Member of The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters

Member of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae, Rome

Education

1988                Dr. philos. at the University of Tromsø, Norway

1970                doctoraalexamen, cum laude, Leiden University

1963-1970           University of Leiden. Studies in classical philology and Ancient culture, comparative Indo-European linguistics.

Studies abroad

2003                Visiting scholar, Athens

1999-2002  Research at the American School of Classical Studies, Deutsches archäologisches Institut, l’École Française, Athens

1998                Visiting scholar University of Leiden and Amsterdam

1993                Visiting scholar Paris, Centre Louis Gernet, and  Oxford University

1988                Visiting scholar, Swedish Institute, Athens

1983                Visiting scholar, Barnard College, New York

Guest lectures, Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus, Stockholm, Göteborg, Athens, Paris, Washington, Bryn Mawr

Conference organization

1998, 2000, 2002, Organizer of the First, Second and Third International Symposium on ‘Myth & Symbol’ at Tromsø and Athens

1999 Organizer International Symposium ‘Celebrations. Sanctuaries and the Vestiges of Cult Practice’ at the 10th anniversary of the Norwegian institute at Athens