Laura Jansen

Laura Jansen comes to Stanford from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where she held a Teaching Fellowship in Latin and Classical Studies (2008-2011). Laura holds degrees from Oxford (MPhil 2004) and Trinity College, Dublin (PhD 2009), and specializes in Roman literature of the Republican and Imperial periods, with an emphasis on textuality and cultures of reading and writing. Together with the completion of a monograph on Ovidian elegy, she is the editor of a forthcoming volume entitled Paratextuality and the Reader in Roman Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press), a collection of essays that explore the interplay between the paratext and reading from a post-Genettean perspective. All of her research addresses various areas of literary theory, criticism, and thought, both ancient and modern, and aims to complement the department’s efforts to find points of contact between aesthetic and socio-historical approaches to Latin texts.

Publications

Book (editor):
L. Jansen (ed.), Paratextuality and the Reader in Roman Literature and Culture (CUP, forthcoming).

Articles:
‘Editorial Postscript and Readers in ex Ponto 3.9', forthcoming in Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi (2012) 68

‘On the Edge of the Text: Preface and Reader in Ovid’s Amores’, Helios (2012) Vol. 39.1

‘Binding Fictions: Covers and the Structures of Meaning in Ovidian Elegy’ in L. Jansen (ed.) Paratextuality and the Reader in Roman Literature and Culture (CUP, forthcoming)

‘Paratextual Reading in Roman Literature’ in L. Jansen (ed.) Paratextuality and the Reader in Roman Literature and Culture (CUP, forthcoming) 

Reviews:
Cole T. (Peter Lang, 2008) ‘Ovidius Mythistoricus: legendary time in the Metamorphoses’. Journal of Roman Studies 99.  

Gibson R, Green S., and Sharrock A. (eds), (Oxford, 2007) The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris. Hermathena 185. 

Hardie P. (ed.), (Oxford, 2009) Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture. Journal of Roman Studies 100. 

E. Fantham (Toronto, 2009) Latin Poets and Italian Gods. Classical Review 60.2. 

E. Pavlock (Wisconsin, 2009), The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Journal of Roman Studies 101. 

L. A. Hitchcock (Routledge, 2008), Theory for Classics: A Student’s Guide. Classical Review 61.1 (forthcoming 2011). 

S. Butler (Wisconsin, 2011), The Matter of the Page: Essays in Search of Ancient and Medieval Authors. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Classical Review 61.2 (forthcoming, 2011).

A. Feldherr (Princeton, 2010) Playing gods: Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction. Journal of Roman Studies 102 (forthcoming, 2012).