Giovanna Ceserani

Assistant Professor
PhD Cambridge 2000

Giovanna Ceserani works on the classical tradition with an emphasis on the intellectual history of classical scholarship, historiography and archaeology from the eighteenth century onwards. She is interested in the role that Hellenism and Classics played in the shaping of modernity and, in turn, in how the questions we ask of the classical past originate in specific modern cultural, social and political contexts. She is currently writing a book on the history of the modern study of Magna Graecia. Most recently she wrote articles on Wilamowitz's entanglements with archaeology and on eighteenth-century historiography of ancient Greece. She also participates as research director in the AREA project (Archives for European Archaeology http://www.area-archives.org). In Spring 2006 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

Publications

“Narrative, Interpretation, and Plagiarism in Mr. Robertson's 1778 History of Ancient
Greece” Journal of the History of Ideas66.3 (2005) 413-436.

"The charm of the Siren: the place of Sicily in historiography" inAncient Sicily from Aeneas to Cicero edited by C. Smith and J. Serrati (EUP, 2000) 174-193.

"Processi e modelli: l'archeologia di Colin Renfrew" Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa II:2 [2000] 363-410.

Publications - On the Web

Response to J. Schnapp's "Titus Livy and the Corporativist City" in Archaeologies of the Modern special issue of Modernism/Modernity 11:1 (2004) 105-108.

Review of A. De Jorio, Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity. A Translation of La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano with introduction and notes by Adam KendonBMCR, 2003.03.34