Charlotte Roueché (née Wrinch) (born 1946) is a British academic who specialises in the analysis of texts, inscribed or in manuscripts, from the

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of Roman civilization *Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter w ...

Late Antique Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was popularized by Peter Brown in 1971, and this periodization has since been wide ...

, and

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...

periods. She is particularly interested in those from the Asia Minor cities of ancient

Ephesos Ephesus (; ; ; may ultimately derive from ) was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, in present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of Apasa, the former Arzawan capital ...

and

Aphrodisias Aphrodisias (; ) was a Hellenistic Greek city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Asia Minor, today's Anatolia in Turkey. It is located near the modern village of Geyre, about east/inland from the coast of the Aegean Sea, and s ...

. She is also interested in the interface between

digital humanities Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or Information technology, digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanitie ...

and classical and

Byzantine studies Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music, science, economy, coinage and politics of the Eastern Roman Empire. ...

. She is

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of Digital Hellenic Studies at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

, and Honorary Fellow of the

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, University of London. Roueché has a degree in Classics from

Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicen ...

. On 21 June 2018, Roueché was awarded a Docteur ''honoris causa'' by the l’École Pratique des Hautes Études,

Sorbonne University Sorbonne University () is a public research university located in Paris, France. The institution's legacy reaches back to the Middle Ages in 1257 when Sorbonne College was established by Robert de Sorbon as a constituent college of the Unive ...

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. The title is 'one of the most prestigious distinctions awarded by French universities to honour personalities of foreign nationality because of outstanding services to science, literature or the arts'. Her honorary lecture was 'Le défi Robert: transformation d’une discipline'. In 2019 she gave The Susan Hockey Lecture in Digital Humanities at

University College London University College London (Trade name, branded as UCL) is a Public university, public research university in London, England. It is a Member institutions of the University of London, member institution of the Federal university, federal Uni ...

, 'Wider Horizons, Harder Borders or Whose data are they, anyway?' Also in 2019, she delivered the 10th Barron Memorial Lecture at the

, London; the lecture was titled 'Forming/informing the modern world? The role of classical scholarship'.

Personal life

Roueché's sister, Ana Martha Rowan, established the '' Dictionary of Irish Architects'' while working for the

Irish Architectural Archive The Irish Architectural Archive was established in 1976 by Dr Edward McParland and Nicholas Robinson as the National Trust Archive. Its objective is to collect and preserve material of every kind relating to the architecture of Ireland, and mak ...

Selected publications

Heritage Gazetteer of Libya
co-editor
Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus
co-editor
Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica
(2020), by Joyce M. Reynolds, Charlotte Roueché and Gabriel Bodard. Society for Libyan Studies. *Roueche, C., 2020, “Celebrity and Power: Circus Factions forty years on.” In Harris, W. & Hunnel Chen, A. (eds.), ''Late Antique Studies in Memory of Alan Cameron.'' Leiden: Brill, pp. 247-259 *Abdelhamed, M. H. H. & Roueché, C., 2019, “Digitising Libyan heritage: Inscriptions and toponomy.” ''Libyan Studies'' 50, pp. 87-92.
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania
by J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, enhanced electronic reissue by Gabriel Bodard and Charlotte Roueché (2009). . Third edition in 2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania
by Charlotte Roueché, Gabriel Bodard, Caroline Barron, Irene Vagionakis et al. Society for Libyan Studies.
Sharing Ancient Wisdoms
co-edited by Charlotte M Roueché, Elvira Wakelnig, and Anna Jordanous (2013)
Inscriptions of Aphrodisias
(2007), by Joyce Reynolds, Charlotte Roueché, Gabriel Bodard, .
Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: The Late Roman and Byzantine Inscriptions
revised second edition, 2004, . *Aphrodisias papers 3: the setting and quarries, mythological and other sculptural decoration, architectural development, Portico of Tiberius (1996): co-editor with R.R.R.Smith *Performers and partisans at Aphrodisias in the Roman and late Roman periods (1993) with a section by Nathalie de Chaisemartin *The Making of Byzantine history: studies dedicated to Donald M. Nicol (1993): co-editor, with Roderick Beaton *Aphrodisias papers: recent Work on Architecture and Sculpture: Including the Papers Given at the Second *International Aphrodisias Colloquium Held at King's College (1990): co-editor with K.T.Erim. *Aphrodisias in late antiquity: the late Roman and Byzantine inscriptions (1989) *'Acclamations in the Later Roman Empire: New Evidence from Aphrodisias', ''

Journal of Roman Studies The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (The Roman Society) was founded in 1910 as the sister society to the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The Society is the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for those interest ...

,'' Volume 74 November 1984, pp. 181–99

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roueché, Charlotte Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge Living people Academics of King's College London Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London 1946 births British classical scholars British women classical scholars Fellows of King's College London