Dr. Klazina Staat

Biography

Klazina Staat is an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, focusing on Latin language literature and Roman cultural history. Her research interests cover a wide array of topics including the Latin European tradition, classical and late antique literatures, travel literature, gender and female authorship, and the interplay between text and image. Her PhD dissertation explored concepts of belief in late antique hagiography, particularly in narratives featuring chaste couples, conducted within the framework of the ERC-project 'Novel Saints'. She has also received a junior postdoc grant from the Research Foundation–Flanders to investigate literary explorations of travel guidebooks in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Currently, she is working on a postdoctoral project titled 'Total Devotion: Narrativisation of Radical Religion in the Ancient World', which examines ideals of total devotion in late antique Latin hagiographical traditions. Klazina is involved in teaching various courses in the Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology (ACASA) and is developing her own research project on the representation of mountains in postclassical Latin travel literature. Throughout her career, she has contributed significantly to the fields of classical studies and hagiography, and continues to explore the relationships between human and nature in her academic work.

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