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Simona Martorana is a Lecturer in Classics at the Australian National University. She teaches courses such as 'Introductory Latin' (LATN1001) and 'Advanced Latin' (3125), and has previously instructed on subjects including 'Continuing Latin' and 'Life, Love and Loss in Ancient Greece and Rome'. She holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Trento and completed her Ph.D. in Classics in July 2021. Her research interests focus on Latin verse, integrating philological rigor with contemporary theoretical approaches. She has been involved in various research publications and projects, including a forthcoming book titled 'Seeking Mothers: Ovid's Heroides' and a collaborative project on 'Body and Medicine in Latin Poetry'. Martorana has also worked as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Kiel University and the University of Hamburg. With a particular interest in themes such as gender studies and medical humanities, she aims to rethink human-environment interactions through her research, evident in her current project on Plague Narratives in the Roman World.
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