Professor Caroline Vout
- Professor of Classics
- Director of the Museum of Classical Archaeology
- 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 and art historian with strong archaeological, literary and receptions interests. She is now Professor of Classics.
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; and 'Beyond representation: art and enargeia in Heliodorus’s Aethiopica', Classical Antiquity (2025); 'Deseo apasionado? Ver y sentir lo erótico en el arte griego y romano / Passionate desire? Seeing and feeling the erotic in Greek and Roman art', forthcoming in an edited volume by the Museo del Prado, Madrid, on the Passions in Art (2025); '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; 'Plus ça change?', G. Adornato, S. van de Velde & M. J. Versluys, Itinerant Greek Sculpture in Roman Italy and Greece and temple of Apollo Sosianus on the Campus Martius in Rome; and a chapter on 'Flaubert’s Challenge: Désiré Maurice Ferrary (1852–1904), Salammbô'. Carrie is currently working on Greek sculpture. 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://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/danny-dyer-and-pete-bellotte-on-his-hits-for-donna-summer/id134045372?i=1000662556741.
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; and 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), reception studies.