Professor Caroline Vout
- Professor of Classics
- Fellow in Classics at Christ's College and Director of Studies in Classics
Location
- Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, cv103@cam.ac.uk
About
Carrie was born in Durham. She was an undergraduate at Newnham College, returning there after a MA at the Courtauld Institute in London, to do her PhD. She taught at London, Bristol and Nottingham Universities, before returning to Cambridge in 2006 and to a Fellowship at Christ's College. She is a cultural historian, art historian and curator, with strong literary and receptions interests. She is now Professor of Classics. Carrie is also heavily invested in undergraduate admissions, access and outreach and regularly gives public talks at schools, museums, literary festivals and other venues. She has appeared in In Our Time, Start the Week, Front Row, Woman's Hour and is one of the editors of Omnibus magazine.
Research
Submitted, forthcoming publications include 'Lucan, Statius and the piercing eroticism of war', in L. Fratantuono (ed.), Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Latin Epic, 14-96 CE; 'Greek myth and the politics of empire', in F. Meinel and K. Schorle (eds.) The Cambridge Guide to Greek Myth and the Mediterranean (Cambridge); 'Antinous in antiquity: an image between Egypt, Greece and Rome', in L. Capodieci et L. Bricault (eds.) Immortal Egypt: The Afterlife of the Ægyptiaca in Early Modern Visual Arts (Brepols); 'Greece and Rome: comparative perspectives', in K. Olson and S. Corner, The Routledge Handbook to Gender and Sexuality; 'Ancient and modern perspectives on the materiality of ancient sculpture', in J. Kindt, C. Taylor & K. Vlassopoulos, The Materiality of the Past: Object and Written Record in the Study of the Ancient Greek World; 'Cultural philanthropy', in S. von Reden and A. Zuiderhoek (eds.) Bloomsbury Cultural History of Philanthropy (Antiquity); 'The sexual effects of the Roman principate', in K. Madden and S. Vucetic (eds.) The Sexual Effects of Roman Imperialism (Bloomsbury); 'The late antiqueness of late antique beauty', in C. Cadau (ed.) Reading Beauty in Late Antiquity; 'Flaubert’s Challenge: Désiré Maurice Ferrary (1852–1904), Salammbô', in S. Beckham and M. Gustin (eds.) Shaping Nineteenth-Century Art History; and a chapter entitled 'Attic grave stelai and the gods', in a volume edited by J. Rempel and M. Squire (eds.). Carrie is currently working on a new book on Greek and Roman art. You can listen to her talking about her research here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/carrie-vout-on-venus-hermaphroditus-and-other/id1480259187?i=1000636844425; https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrnK9S/; https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001f4y7; https://www.womenwhowentbefore.com/episodes/the-female-form-in-roman-art.
Recent PhD topics include: Representations of the humpback in Greco-Roman culture; Visualising Rome's Foundation myths; Neo-classicism reassessed; Violence in Roman art; The use of corporeal description in Roman political discourse; A cultural history of Roman engraved gemstones, their iconography, material and function; The classical in the contemporary: the relationship of Greco-Roman art and myth to contemporary art in Britain; Britannia's bodies: corporeal representation and the art of Roman Britain; portraits and identity in Roman Greece; the mythology of ekphrasis in Rome and Roman Greece; the female body in Roman visual culture; visual power and elite subjectivity in private portraiture from Imperial Greece; Sketching, Sight-seeing and Scholarship: Greece and Asia Minor, 1828-1898; Perceptions of the corpse in ancient Roman culture; Personifications of Virtues, Benefits and Ideals in the 3rd-Century AD Roman West.
Recent MPhil areas include: Roman cultural history (especially sexuality); Greek and Roman material and visual culture (including Christianity); Latin literature (especially ecphrasis and imperial biography), reception studies.