Dr. Katharine Von Stackelberg

Biography

Katharine von Stackelberg is a Professor in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at Brock University, specializing in ancient environments, Latin literature, and Roman history. Her research investigates the cultural communication of gardens and landscapes in ancient Rome as forms of expression and sometimes resistance, through the art and literature of that era. She authored The Roman Garden: Space, Sense and Society (Routledge, 2009) and co-edited Housing the New Romans: Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World (with E. Macaulay-Lewis, Oxford University Press, 2017). Her ongoing studies focus on the dynamics of imperial power and gender anxiety in Latin garden poetry and the reception of Graeco-Roman landscape architecture in 19th and 20th century Europe and the Americas. Von Stackelberg teaches courses covering Roman history, the Roman villa, the ancient environment, and Latin prose, with a specific interest in the works of Cicero and Pliny the Younger. She is engaged in various aspects of Roman art and literature representations, gender expression in antiquity, and space syntax analysis.

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