Jennifer Ingleheart is a British 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 ...
,
Classical reception, and the influence of Rome on the modern understanding of
homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to pe ...
. She is
Professor
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of Latin at the
University of Durham
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.
Career
Ingleheart was educated at
Bradford Girls' Grammar School and
Wadham College, Oxford
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Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...
.
Ingleheart read
Literae Humaniores at
Wadham College
Wadham College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road.
Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...
, and went on to complete her M.St. and D.Phil. there in 2004 on Ovid's ''
Tristia
The ''Tristia'' ("Sorrows" or "Lamentations") is a collection of letters written in elegiac couplets by the Augustan poet Ovid during his exile from Rome. Despite five books of his copious bewailing of his fate, the immediate cause of August ...
'', which was published in 2010. After teaching at
Marlboro College,
Vermont
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,
Swansea University
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, and
Keble and
Wadham Colleges in
Oxford
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, she joined
Durham University as a lecturer in 2004 before becoming senior lecturer in 2012, associate professor and then
Professor
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of Latin. Ingleheart is now head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History.
Ingleheart has spoken frequently about her work on how modern cultures have responded to the phenomenon of Roman homosexuality, and the role which ancient Rome has played in modern ideas about sexuality. She ran a major
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spa ...
funded conference in 2012, ''Romosexuality,'' on the subject which has shed considerable light on the differences between Roman and Greek conceptions of homosexuality, and differences from modern conceptions. Previously most work on classical homosexuality focused on Greek homosexuality and its modern reception, but Ingleheart's work has facilitated new research and interest in the Roman experience. The modern reception of Roman homosexuality in particular has led to Ingleheart's current work on, and translation of,
AE Housman's ''Praefanda,'' a study of classical sexuality in Latin.
Television
* ''Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor''
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* ''Masculine Plural: Queer Classics, Sex, and Education'' (Oxford University Press 2018)
* ''Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities'' (Oxford University Press 2015)
*"Ovid's ''scripta puella'': Perilla as poetic and political fiction in ''Tristia'' 3.71." ''The Classical Quarterly'' 62, no. 1 (2012): 227–41.
* (ed.) ''Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid'' (Oxford University Press 2011)
* ''A Commentary on Ovid,'' Tristia'', Book 2'' (Oxford University Press 2010)
*"Propertius 4.10 and the end of the Aeneid: Augustus, the ''spolia opima'' and the right to remain silent." ''Greece and Rome'' 54, no. 1 (2007): 61–81.
*"What the Poet Saw: Ovid, the Error and the Theme of Sight in Tristia 2." ''Materiali E Discussioni per L'analisi Dei Testi Classici'', no. 56 (2006): 63–86.
*"Ovid ''Tristia'' 1.2: High Drama on the High Seas." ''Greece and Rome'' 53, no. 1 (2006): 73–91.
*"Catullus 2 And 3: A programmatic pair of Sapphic epigrams?" ''Mnemosyne'' 56, no. 5 (2003): 551–65.