Dr. Francesca Modini

Biography

Francesca Modini joined the Classics Ancient History department at the University of Warwick in 2021 to work on a postdoctoral project titled ‘Soundtracks of Identity: Politics and Music in Roman Greece,’ jointly funded by the University of Warwick and the Leverhulme Trust. Currently, she serves as a Teaching Fellow in the department. Francesca previously worked as a Teaching Associate at the University of Bristol in 2020. She completed her BA at the University of Milan in 2012, her MA at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in 2014, and earned her PhD from King’s College London in 2019. Her research interests include ancient lyric poetry, musical culture, and the multifaceted productions of Greek writers during the imperial period, with a focus on how these works shaped notions of identity through performance. Francesca's doctoral research examined the relationship between verse and prose, cultural self-fashioning, and the impacts of Roman imperialism on Greek identity and performance. Her forthcoming monograph focuses on the appropriation of archaic and classical poetry by authors of the so-called Sophistic, analyzing how lyric was used as a strategy for self-presentation by sophists. She is also working on a new book project that investigates the significance of music and sound in the construction of fictional worlds in ancient imperial Greek and Latin novels, exploring the socio-cultural implications of sonic representation.

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