Prof. Dr. Katherine Harloe

Geburtsjahr 1978

Studium:

1996-2000 BA Literae Humaniores University of Oxford

2000 – 2001 MPhil Political Thought and Intellectual History University of Cambridge

2001-2004 PhD Philosophy University of Cambridge

 

wissenschaftliche Anstellungen bzw. Tätigkeiten:

Director, Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study and Professor of Classics and Intellectual History, University of London

 

wichtige wissenschaftliche Funktionen und Mitgliedschaften:

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of the Classical Tradition

 

 

Titel des Projekts: Winckelmann’s love letters: sexuality, epistolary and classical reception

Zusammenfassung: The writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann are significant for LGBTQ history because of their celebration of male same-sex desire in an era of prohibition. Winckelmann’s familiar correspondence, which was first published in the eighteenth century and circulated widely thereafter, was as fundamental as his scholarly essays in shaping understandings of his erotic personality. This monograph project provides the first English translations of 25 of Winckelmann's familiar letters, plus three discursive and contextual chapters that explore how the reception of Winckelmann’s correspondence has shaped understandings of his sexuality and life, recontextualising his epistolary practice within cultures of Latin and vernacular education of his own day, and the various ‘figures of friendship’ presented in his reading of classical and vernacular Enlightenment literature. During the fellowship I will conduct research for the contextual chapters as well as finalising the translations and editorial notes to the 25 letters.

Selbständige Schriften

Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft. Oxford University Press (Classical Presences), Oxford 2013.

 

Herausgeberschaften

With Nicoletta Momigliano and Alexandre Farnoux (eds.) Hellenomania. Papers of the British School at Athens. Routledge, Abingdon, 2018.

With Cristina Neagu and Amy C. Smith (eds.) Winckelmann and Curiosity in the 18th-century Gentleman's Library. Christ Church Library Exhibitions, Christ Church Publications, Oxford, 2018.

With Neville Morley (eds), Thucydides and the Modern World: Reception, reinterpretation and influence from the Renaissance to the present, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012.

 

Beiträge in Zeitschriften und Sammelbänden

 

‘Leben in (Liebes-)Briefen. Lesarten von Winckelmanns Korrespondenz im langen 19. Jahrhundert’, Zeitschrift für Äesthetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft Sonderheft 23: Winckelmann um 1900, edited by Claudia Keller and Christoph Schmälzle, Stuttgart 2022, 91-111.

‘Winckelmann’s reception in Great Britain’, in Ortwin Dally, Maria Gazzetti, and Arnold Nesselrath, eds., Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768). Ein europäisches Rezeptionsphänomen/Fenomeno europeo della ricezione. Cyriacus. Studien zur Rezeption der Antike, 15. Michael Imhof (Winckelmann-Gesellschaft, Stendal), Petersberg, 2021, pp. 143-156.

‘Classics transformed? Ancient figured vases as a test case for the preoccupations of classical reception studies’, in A. Petsalis-Diomidis and E. Hall, eds., The Classical Vase Transformed, special issue of Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 63.1 (2020.), pp. 138 – 143.

‘Erotic affinities: Winckelmann to Usteri’, in A. Bronowski, ed., ‘Dear Friend: You Must Change Your Life’: The letters of great thinkers. Bloomsbury, London, 2020, pp. 91 – 96.

With L. Russell, ‘Life and (love) letters: looking in on Winckelmann’s correspondence.’ Publications of the English Goethe Society 88.1 (2019), pp. 1 – 20.

‘Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717 – 1768): charting the artistic development of nations’, History of Humanities 4.2 (summer 2019), pp. 229 – 235.

‘Winckelmania: Hellenomania between ideal and experience’ in Harloe, Momigliano and Farnoux, eds., Hellenomania, Routledge: Abingdon, 2018, pp. 40-55.

‘Kritische Zeitgenossen: Lessing, Heyne, Herder.’ In: Disselkamp, M. and Testa , F, eds., Winckelmann-Handbuch: Leben-Werk-Wirkung. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart, 2017, pp. 258-267.

‘Sympathy, tragedy and the morality of sentiment in Lessing's Laocoon.’ In: Lifschitz, A. and Squire, M., eds., Re-thinking Lessing's Laocoon: Classical Antiquity, the German Enlightenment and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017, pp. 157-176.

‘Christian Gottlob Heyne and the changing fortunes of the commentary in the age of Altertumswissenschaft.’ In: Kraus, C. S. and Stray, C., eds., Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a scholarly genre. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, pp. 435-456.

‘Winckelmann in the perspective of Altertumswissenschaft: Christian Gottlob Heyne and Friedrich August Wolf.’ Aufklärung, 27 (2015: special issue on Winckelmann, edited by Élisabeth Décultot and Friedrich Vollhardt), pp. 185-203.

‘Pausanias as historian in Winckelmann's History.’ Classical Receptions Journal, 2.2 (2010: special issue on Receptions of Pausanias: from Winckelmann to Frazer, edited by Jas’ Elsner), pp. 174-196.

‘Ingenium et doctrina. Historicism and the imagination in Winckelmann, Heyne and Wolf’. In: Hummel, P. ed., Metaphilology. Histories and Languages of Philology. Philologicum, Paris, 2009, pp. 91 – 116.

‘Allusion and ekphrasis in Winckelmann's Paris description of the Apollo Belvedere.’ The Cambridge Classical Journal, 53 (2007), pp. 229-252.

In press

With Hawkins, S., ‘Translations of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy.’ In: Venuti, L., ed. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Volume V: The Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Peer-reviewed; revised version accepted by editor in summer 2017.