Research Institute Staff

Magdalena Öhrman

Magdalena Öhrman studied Classics and comparative literature in Sweden and at Munich, and finished her Lund University PhD as a visiting doctoral student at Manchester in 2008. She is an enthusiastic alumna of the German Academic Exchange Service and the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education.

Research Interests

Roman literature, including literary patronage and the use of literary theory in the field of Classics.

Publications

Books

• Varying Virtue. Mythological Paragons of Wifely Virtues, Lund 2008.

Articles

• "Ov. Am. 1,8,45: An Emendation in Context", Eranos 104 (2006/2007) 60–66

•  "The Potential of Passion: The Laodamia Myth in Catullus 68b", in Plotting with Eros: Essays on the Poetics of Love and the Erotics of Reading, ed. Ingela Nilsson and Thomas Hägg, Museum Tusculanum, Copenhagen (forthcoming)

Current and Future Projects

Magdalena's current research project deals with issues of genre and characterization in Ovid’s exile poetry.