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Professor Monica Gale

Professor (Classics)
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Professor Monica Gale

Professor (Classics)
ARTS BUILDING

 mrgale@tcd.ie

 3531896 1425


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.
  Genre and intertextuality in Classical Literature   Greek and Roman didactic poetry   Latin poetry   Literature
Project Title
 A Commentary on the Complete Poems of Catullus
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Text and scholarly commentary on the oeuvre of the poet Catullus, for the Cambridge 'Greek and Latin Classics' series

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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
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
French Fluent Basic Medium
German Medium Basic Basic
Italian Medium Basic Basic
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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, viii+173pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Monica R. Gale, Anna Chahoud, The Augustan Space: The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, Book, PUBLISHED  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, PUBLISHED
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, PUBLISHED
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, PUBLISHED
Monica Gale, The Death of Dido: mors (minime) Romana, A Perfect Death? Literary, Historical, and Philosophical Reflections on Death, Dying and Remembrance in Greco-Roman Antiquity, KU Leuven, October 2024, 2024, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
'"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
  

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Monica Gale, Word on the Street: Catullus and Roman Graffiti, University of Edinburgh, 2026, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Monica Gale, Par esse deo uidetur: Catullus Against the Philosophers, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2025, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
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 Gale, Par esse deo uidetur: Emotions and the "Godlike" Man in Catullus and Hellenistic Philosophy, The Poetry of the Roman Republic, University of Edinburgh, August 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
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

  


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Award Date
FTCD 2001
IRCHSS Senior Research Fellow 2003-4
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