Jacqueline Fabre-Serris is a French classical scholar, who is known for her work on

Ovid Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the th ...

mythography Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrat ...

, classical reception, and

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

. She is Professeure des Universités of Latin Literature at the

Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III The Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III (french: Université Lille 3 Charles-de-Gaulle) was a French university. Since 1974, the main campus of University of Lille III was located in Villeneuve d'Ascq in eastern Lille, at ''Pont de Bois'' me ...

Career

Fabre-Serris was educated at École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses and completed her first doctoral degree at the

University of Provence The University of Provence Aix-Marseille I (french: Université de Provence) was a public research university mostly located in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. It was one of the three Universities of Aix-Marseille and was part of the Academy of ...

in 1984 on the reception of classical texts in Cesare Pavese's '' Dialoghi con Leucò''. She completed a second doctoral degree at the University Paris IV-Sorbonne (supervisor:

Jean-Pierre Néraudau Jean-Pierre Néraudau (30 January 1940 – 20 December 1998) was a 20th-century French writer and professor of Latin literature. Biography The son of an officer in the French army, he studied in Dijon, where his family had settled in 1946. Ag ...

) in 1992 on Ovid's ''

Metamorphoses The ''Metamorphoses'' ( la, Metamorphōsēs, from grc, μεταμορφώσεις: "Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his ''magnum opus''. The poem chronicles the history of the wo ...

'', which she published in 1995. After teaching at University Paris III, University Paris IV, and the

, she joined

as an

Associate Professor Associate professor is an academic title with two principal meanings: in the North American system and that of the ''Commonwealth system''. Overview In the ''North American system'', used in the United States and many other countries, it is a ...

in 1991, before becoming

Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who pr ...

of Latin Literature in 1998. Fabre-Serris is a member of the Council of the department “Humanities”. She is also co-editor of the academic journals "''Dictynna''", which publishes contributions on classical literature and culture, and "''EuGeStA''", which looks at Greco-Roman literature and society through a gendered lens. Among other scientific offices, she is in charge of the international network on “Augustan Poetry” and a member of the editorial committee "Savoirs et systèmes de pensée", an interdisciplinary project which collects studies from various fields across the

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

: Fabre-Serris is in charge of the section on

Mythography Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrat ...

. Fabre-Serris has worked extensively on

Latin literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. The beginning of formal Latin literature dates to 240 BC, when the first stage play in Latin was performed in Rome. Latin literature ...

, ancient mythography,

and the reception of ancient texts in modern literature. In the last decade, Fabre-Serris has focused more particularly on

gender Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures (i.e. gender roles) and gender identity. Most cultures u ...

and

, contributing to the topic with articles, book chapters, and edited volumes.

Select publications

* ''Mythe et poésie dans les Métamorphoses d'Ovide. Fonctions et significations de la mythologiedans la Rome augustéenne'' (Klincksieck, Paris 1995) * ''Rome, l'Arcadie et la mer des Argonautes. Essai sur la naissance d'une mythologie des origines en Occident'' (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Lille 2008) * (ed.) ''Women and War in Antiquity'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2015) * "Un exemple de sélection, ordre et traitement mythographique chez Hygin: les fables 1–27", ''Polymnia'' 3, 2017, 26–52 * "Sulpicia, Gallus et les élégiaques. Propositions de lecture de l'épigramme 3.13" ''Eugesta'' 7, 2017, 115–139 * "Genre et Gender: usages et enjeux de l’emploi de durus chez les élégiaques", ''Eugesta'' 3, 2013, 209–309 *"Desire and Rape in the Feminine:The Tales of Echo and Salmacis: An Ovidian Answer to Propertius 1.20?", Helios 46.2, 2018, 127-144 *''maximum Thebis (Romae?) scelus/maternus amor est (Oed. 629-30): Amour de la mère et inceste chez Sénèque'' in 'Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy' A. Sharrock and A. Keith (eds) (Toronto University Press, Toronto, 2020)

References

External links

University of Lille profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fabre Serris, Jacqueline Living people French classical scholars Paris-Sorbonne University alumni Women classical scholars 1954 births Writers from Marseille University of Provence alumni University of Paris alumni Academic staff of the University of Paris Academic staff of the University of Provence