Bettina Reitz wins the Ted Meijer Prize
Dr. Bettina Reitz-Joosse, postdoctoral researcher in the Classics department has won Ted Meijer Prize of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR).
Dr. Bettina Reitz-Joosse, postdoctoral researcher in the Classics department has won Ted Meijer Prize of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR).
Each year, the prize is awarded for the best dissertation in the humanities concerned with Italy or Rome. The prize consists of a three-month research period at the KNIR, as well as generous research- and travel funds.
Dissertation Building in Words
Reitz-Joosse’s dissertation, entitled Building in Words, was funded through an NWO Toptalent grant. It deals with representations of the process of construction in Roman imperial literature from Vergil to the second century AD. Reitz-Joosse argues that literary descriptions of construction processes can be employed to influence readers’ appreciation of finished monuments. She also explores the meta-literary function of representations of construction: the role of building as an image for the creation of a text. Reitz-Joosse defended her dissertation cum laude in May 2013.
Niels Stensen Fellowship
Reitz-Joosse will spend three months in Rome in the spring, where she hopes to begin her research on a new, equally interdisciplinary project, landscapes of war in Roman literature, for which she has also recently received a
Niels Stensen Fellowship.
Last year, the Ted Meijer prize was also won by a LUCAS researcher, Arthur Cruc, for his Research Master thesis
The Sensuous Virtue: Emotional Response to Bernini's Charity on the Tomb of Urban VIII.