Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Dr Carrie Vout 

Dr Caroline Vout is a University Senior Lecturer in Classics and Fellow and Director of Studies at Christ’s College.

Contact:

Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA

Email: cv103@cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 (7)67501 (Faculty) 01223 (3)34923 (College)

Major publications:

Books

Forthcoming Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome (British Museum Press)

2012 The Hills of Rome: Signature of an Eternal City. (Cambridge University Press)

2007 Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome. Cambridge University Press

2006 Antinous: the Face of the Antique (catalogue to accompany exhibition of ancient sculpture at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 25 May to 27 August 2006)

Co-edited with Helen Lovat, Epic Visions (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2013)

Selected articles

2013 ‘Tiberius and the invention of succession’ in A. G. G. Gibson, The Julio-Claudian Succession: Reality and the Perception of the ‘Augustan Model’. Leiden: 59-78.

2012 ‘Treasure, not trash: The Disney sculpture and its place in the history of collecting’, Journal of the History of Collections 24.3: 309 – 326.

2012 ‘'Unfinished business: re-viewing Medea in Roman painting', Ramus 41: 119-143.

2011 ‘Putting the art into artefact’, in S. Alcock and R. Osborne (edd.) Classical Archaeology 442-67.

2010 ‘From the ancient world to world art’, World Art 1.1: 135-41. 

2010 'Hadrian, Hellenism and the social history of art', Arion 18.2: 55-78.

2010 'Laocoon's children and the limits of representation', Art History 33.3: 397-419.

2009 'Representing the emperor', in A. Feldherr (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians. 261-75.

2009 'The Satyrica and Neronian culture', in j. Prag and I. Repath (edd.) Petronius: a Handbook. Wiley-Blackwell: 101-13.

2008 ‘The art of damnatio memoriae' in S. Benoist (ed.)  Un discours en images. Metz: 153-172.

2007 ‘Sizing up Rome or theorising the overview', in D. Larmour and D. Spencer (eds.) The Sites of Rome: Time, Space and Memory. Oxford University Press
: 295-322.

2007 ‘Greek and Roman Art’, in The Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. New York, Macmillan.

2006 'Winckelmann and Antinous', Cambridge Classical Journal/Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 52: 139-62.

2006 'What's in a beard? Rethinking Hadrian's hellenism', in S. Goldhill and R. Osborne (edd.) Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press: 96-123.

2005 'Antinous, Archaeology and History', Journal of Roman Studies 95
: 80-96.

2004 'A revision of Hadrian's portraiture', in L. du Blois et al. (eds.) The Representation and Perception of Imperial Power. Amsterdam: 442-57.

2003 'Embracing Egypt', in C. Edwards and G. Woolf (eds.) Rome: the Cosmopolis. Cambridge University Press
: 177-202.

1996 'The myth of the toga: understanding the history of Roman dress', Greece and Rome 43.2: 204-20.

Current research interests:

I have recently come to the end of a two-year sabbatical, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.  Forthcoming publications include, a chapter on biography and sexuality in T. Hubbard (ed.) A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities (Wiley-Blackwell); on ‘Roman funerary art and the rhetoric of unreachability’, in J. Elsner and M. Meyer (eds.) Art and Rhetoric (CUP); 'Heroic nudity and the body of the female athlete in Greek and Roman culture', in V. Huet and F. Gherchanoc (eds.) Vêtements antiques: s’habiller, se déshabiller dans les modes anciens (Paris);  'Epic in the round', in H. Lovatt and C. Vout (eds.) Epic Visions (CUP); ‘Face to face with fiction: portraiture and the biographical tradition’, in M. Hatt and M. Ledbury (edd.) The Fictions of Art History (The Clark Institute); ‘Art and the decadent city’, in Bartsch et al. (edd.) The Cambridge Companion to Nero (CUP); ‘Romantic visions: collecting, display and homosexual self-fashioning’, in J. Ingleheart (ed.) Romosexuality: The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities (OUP), and ‘The epic and erotic’, in Lee Fratantuono (ed.), Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Latin Epic, 14-96 CE.  I have also contributed a short introductory essay to two classic articles by Keith Hopkins in C. Kelly (ed.) The Pattern of Empire (CUP) and will soon be writing entries for the catalogue of Victorian sculpture which will accompany a major exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in 2014.  My next book will be on the collecting and canon-formation of Classical art.

Recent graduate research topics supervised:

PhD

Representations of the humpback in Greco-Roman culture

Visualising Rome’s Foundation myths

Neo-classicism reassessed

Violence in Roman art

The non-ideal body in Roman rhetoric and historiography

MPhil

Topics on Roman cultural history, Greek and Roman visual culture and reception

Other Faculty positions:

I am Secretary of the X caucus and of the College Classical Representatives and a member of the Graduate Studies Committee, the Resources and Personnel Planning Committee, the Appointments Committee, and the Greek Play Committee.  I also edit CCJ (formerly Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society).