Current PhDs
Hanna Koban
Oxford, Faculty of Classics; profile here.
Supervisors: N/A
From: 2025
Subject: Building on her MPhil thesis, which examines the stylistic device of enumeration in the poetry of two late antique poets, Ausonius and Sidonius Apollinaris, comparing their strategies of listing with the modes of seriality and collection in the material culture of their time, aiming to shed further light on the aesthetics of enumeration in 4th and 5th century Gaul.
Nicolas Goldmann
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
Supervisors: Prof. Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser and Prof. Meike Rühl
Duration: until 2022
Subject: ‘Die Briefe des Sidonius Apollinaris als gesellschaftlich-literarische Gelegenheiten’
Madeleine St. Marie
University of California Riverside, Dept of History
Supervisor: Prof. Michele Salzman
Duration: 2018-2020
Subject: ‘Sidonius Apollinaris the Bishop: Power, Authority, and Episcopal Self-Presentation in Fifth-Century Gaul’