Flavia Vasconcellos Amaral
Title: Assistant Professor
Phone: 204.786.9211
Office: 4G13
Building: Graham Hall
Email: f.amaral@uwinnipeg.ca
Degrees:
BA Classics and Portuguese, University of Sao Paulo
MA Classics, University of Sao Paulo
PhD Classics, University of Sao Paulo
Biography:
University of Toronto Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of Classics) 2019-2021
University of Cincinnati Summer Resident 2019
Affiliations:
Communications Officer for Women’s Network of the Classical Association of Canada
Editor for Cátedra Unesco Archai Science Communication Project
Research Interests:
Greek and Latin epigram and epigraphy, Hellenistic poetry and its reception, Greek poetry books (esp. epigram collections), reading and writing in ancient Greece, death in ancient Greece, women in antiquity.
Publications:
2021. “Nossis”. In Compêndio Histórico de Mulheres da Antiguidade: a presença das mulheres na Literatura e na História, edited by S.C. Silva, R. Brunhara, and I. Vieira Neto, pp.783-785. Goiânia: Tempestiva.
2021. “Pequena poética dos ‘autoepitáfios’ e dos epitáfios para poetas” [The poetics of Self-epitaphs and Epitaphs dedicated to Poets]. In A Poética Calimaquiana e a sua Influência na Poesia Epigramática, edited by F. Rodrigues Jr., B. B. Sebastiani, and B.C. Silva, pp. 59-78. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.
2021. “A Ekphrasis nos epigramas fúnebres enigmáticos gregos” [Ekphrasis in funerary enigmatic epigrams]. In: Recepção e Ekphrasis no Ensino de Letras Clássicas, edited by W. Grizoste and F.B. dos Santos, pp. 11-33. Parintins: Editora UEA.
2020. “HIPPIKA: Os epigramas equestres de Posídipo de Pela” [HIPPIKA: The equestrian epigrams of Posidippus of Pella]. Letras Escreve, UNIFAP, PA, Brasil. Vol. 10, n.2, pp.31-42.
2020. “Falando com os mortos: alguns epigramas helenísticos dialogados em tradução” [Talking to the dead: some Hellenistic dialogue epigrams in translation]. In: Escritos clássicos grego-latinos, edited by A. L. Albertim and W. P. Soares, pp. 124-142. João Pessoa: Editora do CCTA.
2020. “Epigramas Fúnebres dedicados às mulheres bêbadas” [Funerary epigrams dedicated to drunken women]. In Morte e Vida na Grécia Antiga: olhares interdisciplinares, edited by M.A.O. Silva and C.D. Diogo, pp.198-227. Piauí: EDUFPI.
2017. “O Epigrama Fúnebre e a Embriaguez” [Funerary Epigram and Drunkenness]. PHAOS – Revista de Estudos Clássicos, UNICAMP, SP, Brasil. Vol. 17 n2. pp.243- 255.
2017. “Epigrama Fúnebre e Contexto Funerário” [Funerary Epigram and Funerary Context]. In Vozes Clássicas, Ecos Renascentistas – Intertextualidade, Epigrama e Autores Revisitados, edited by E.C. Sartorelli, R.C. Lima, and R.T. Cesila, pp.87-107. Sao Paulo: Humanitas.
2016. “Marcial, Meleagro e alguns topoi do Epigrama” [Martial, Meleager and some epigram topoi]. ORGANON – Revista do Instituto de Letras da UFRGS – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, RS, Brasil. Vol.31 n.60. pp.187-204.
Public Engagement:
Editor for Podcast Archai – Cátedra Unesco Archai, University of Brasilia (episodes in Brazilian Portuguese: https://anchor.fm/podcast-archai )
Founder and digital curator of “Clássicas Dia a Dia” (an online calendar of events in Classics in Brazil: https://classicasdiadia.wordpress.com )