Dr. Victoria Fendel

Biography

Victoria Fendel is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. She completed her BA in Classical Civilisations and MA in Greek Ancient Near East Studies at the University of Basel, where she received funding from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. She then moved to the University of Oxford, where she completed her DPhil in Language Contact, focusing on Post-Classical Greek and Coptic, supported by the Clarendon Scholarship. Fendel has also undertaken an MPhil in Theoretical Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse), emphasizing French linguistics and funded by AHRC. Her research interests lie in language contact, particularly Greek Egyptian (Coptic), as well as syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics. She has published various works on these topics, exploring themes such as support-verb constructions and syntactic regionalisms in post-classical Byzantine Greek. Additionally, she teaches Classical Comparative Philology and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and Classical Greek and Latin at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford.

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