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Professor Monica Gale

Professor (Classics)
ARTS BUILDING

 mrgale@tcd.ie

 3531896 1425


Biography

Born and educated in Birmingham, UK, I studied Classics in Cambridge and went on to hold posts at the University of Newcastle and Royal Holloway, University of London, before joining the staff at Trinity College Dublin in 1998.

Research Tags

  Genre and intertextuality in Classical Literature   Greek and Roman didactic poetry   Latin poetry   Literature

Research Projects

 A Commentary on the Complete Poems of Catullus

Representations

Details Date
External advisor for audit of School of Classics and Quinquennial Review of Programmes, Trinity St David, University of Wales 2012
Member of Editorial Board, Dictynna: Révue de poétique latine 2004-
Member of Editorial Board, Classics Ireland, 2003-6 2003-6
Member of Central Council, Classical Association of Ireland 1999-2006,2009-10
Member of council, Classical Association (England and Wales) 1999-2004

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
French Fluent Basic Medium
German Medium Basic Basic
Italian Medium Basic Basic

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Member of American Philological Association 2000
Member of Classical Association of Ireland 1999
Member of Classical Association (England and Wales) 1997
Member of Virgil Society 1996
Member of Cambridge Philological Society 1987
Monica R. Gale, Catullus, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, Book, SUBMITTED
Monica R. Gale, Anna Chahoud, The Augustan Space: The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, Book, IN_PRESS  DOI
Poetic and Imperial Spaces in Propertius, Books 1"3 in, editor(s)Monica Gale, Anna Chahoud , The Augustan Space: The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp53 - 69, [Monica R. Gale], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
The Pleasure of the Text? Literacy,Orality and Programmatics in Lucretius in, editor(s)Giacomo Fedeli, Henry Spelman , Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp261 - 281, [Monica Gale], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
Introduction: The Spaces of Augustan Poetry in, editor(s)Monica Gale, Anna Chahoud , The Augustan Space: The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp1 - 22, [Monica R. Gale], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
'"otium" and "voluptas": Catullus and Roman Epicureanism' in, editor(s)Sergio Yona, Gregson Davis , Roman Epicureanism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp87 - 108, [Monica R. Gale], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Plagues and the Limits of Didactic Authority: Lucretius and Others in, editor(s)J.S. Clay and A. Vergados , Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp205 - 230, [Monica R. Gale], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Catullus and Augustan Poetry in, editor(s)Tony Woodman and Ian Du Quesnay , The Cambridge Companion to Catullus, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp219 - 241, [Monica R. Gale], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Lucretius in, editor(s)P. Mitsis , The Oxford Handbook of Epicureanism, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp430 - 455, [Monica R. Gale], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Monica R. Gale, J.H.D. Scourfield, Texts and Violence in the Roman World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 1 - 384pp, Book, PUBLISHED
  

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quare id faciam" nescio, sed fieri sentio: Affect and Self-Scrutiny in Catullus in, editor(s)Adrian Gramps, Chiara Graf , Affect, Intensity, Antiquity: New Approaches to Ancient Feelings, London, Bloomsbury, 2024, [Monica R. Gale], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED
Monica R. Gale, Five Ways of Reading Catullus, The Fowler Lecture, Ionannou Classics Centre, Oxford, May 2023, 2023, Armand Dangour, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Monica R. Gale, Blood Brothers: Intrafamilial Transgression and Civil Strife in Catullus and Virgil, Virgilian Society Symposium Cumanum, 'Virgil and the Roman Republic', Cuma, Italy, June 2023, 2023, Sergio Casali, Luca Grillo, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Monica Gale, '"Out of the Forum": Catullus the Epicurean?', Public lecture, Department of Classics, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 21 March, 2018, Professor Mark Possanza, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Monica Gale, '"Out of the Forum": Love, Friendship and Philosophy in Catullus and his Contemporaries', Maynooth Classics Seminar, Maynooth University, 2 February, 2018, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Monica R. Gale, 'Commemorating the Living: Epitaphs and Funerary Monuments in Roman Elegy', Ancient Cultures Research Seminar, Centre for Ancient Cultures, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, 14 July, 2017, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Monica R. Gale, 'Commemorating the Living: Epitaphs and Funerary Monuments in Roman Elegy', Ancient History Research Seminar, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia, 18 July, 2017, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Monica Gale, Marginal Subjectivities: Ovid's Tristia and the Death of Elegy, 'Excessive Writing: Ovid in Exile', Colloquium of the Réseau international de recherche dans la domaine de la poésie augusténne, Freie Universität, Berlin, December 2017, 2017, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Monica Gale, Name Puns and Acrostics in Didactic Poetry: Reading the Universe, Celtic Conference in Classics, University of Edinburgh, June, 2014, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Monica Gale, Poetic and Imperial Spaces in the Elegies of Propertius, The Augustan Space, TCD, June, 2014, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
FTCD 2001
IRCHSS Senior Research Fellow 2003-4

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Roman poetry of the Late Republican and Augustan periods (especially Catullus, Lucretius, Virgil, Propertius); Greek and Roman didactic poetry; genre and intertextuality in Roman poetry; the uses of myth in ancient literature