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Alexandra Trachsel

PhD thesis (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland): La Troade: un paysage et son héritage littéraire; les commentaires antiques sur la Troade, leur genèse et leur influence, Basel 2008
2007-2008: Junior Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies
2012-2013: One-year Marie Curie Fellowship at King’s College London, Department of Digital Humanities
2017: Fellowship at the New Europe College, Institute of Advanced Studies, Bucharest
2022-2024: Annemarie Schimmel Scholarship, University of Erfurt

Habilitation thesis (University of Hamburg, Germany): Demetrios of Scepsis and his Τρωϊκὸς διάκοσμος. A New Evaluation of the Remaining Fragments

Main interests: Homeric poetry; geographical and mythographical writings in Antiquity (Eratothenes, Palaephatus), Claudius Aelianus and miscellaneous compilations in Imperial times, transmission of knowledge in Antiquity and quotation practices
Other domains of interest: Renaissance translations of Aristotle (Jean Sturm), Cairo Genizah and St Plato of Ancyra

Currently: Privat-Dozentin, Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie, Universität Hamburg (2014-)

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