Dr. Michèle Lowrie

Biography

Professor Michèle Lowrie is an Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago. Her research interests encompass Roman literature, culture, and political thought, particularly exploring how political ideas emerge through the formal elements of texts and figurative expression. Lowrie's notable contributions include her published work 'Horace’s Narrative Odes Writing, Performance, Authority in Augustan Rome' with Oxford University Press, and the edited volumes 'Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace’s Odes and Epodes,' co-edited with Susanne Lüdemann, and 'Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking in Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law' with Routledge. Her current research is focused on civil war security and Roman concepts with long historical legacies. Lowrie has been a frequent visitor at the Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and has held residential fellowships at prestigious institutions such as the Center for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg, and the American Academy in Berlin. She has received the Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and various fellowships from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lowrie delivered the Gray Lectures at Cambridge in 2018, substantiating her status as a leading scholar in her field.

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