Timothy
Saunders
Researcher,
University
of
Tromsø
Institutt
for Kultur og Litteratur (IKL)
HSL-fakultet
Universitetet
i
Tromsø
9037
Tromsø
Norway
timothy.saunders@uit.no
+47
776 45627
Research
My main research interests
are in classical literature (especially Virgil) and the classical tradition. Much
of my work to date has tended to gravitate towards questions of the
relationship between culture and space, poetry and nature, and verbal
and visual art. It has also, at one time or other, had recourse to
reception theory, translation theory and ecological literary criticism.
I have been at the University
of
Tromsø since the end of 2006, when I arrived to take up a
3-year postdoctoral scholarship. I then spent last year (2010)
lecturing in English literature, co-teaching Introduction to British Studies and
Introduction to American Studies,
and
teaching British Drama: 1600-1750.
I
am
currently employed as a researcher on the Border
Aesthetics project.
Current
projects
- An article for the Border Aesthetics project on
‘Hellenistic Aesthetics and Contemporary Border Theories
- An article on
‘Percy Shelley, Antiquity and the Edges of the Ocean’
- A short book
on the classical references in Brian Friel’s Translations
Single-authored
Books
Saunders, T. (2008) Bucolic Ecology: Virgil’s Eclogues and the
Environmental Literary Tradition. Duckworth, ISBN
9780715636176
Co-edited
Books
C.
Martindale,
R.Pite,
T. Saunders and M.Skoie (eds) (2012) Romans
and Romantics. Oxford
University Press
Articles and Chapters in Books
a)
forthcoming or under consideration
‘Classical Antiquity in Brian
Friel’s Translations’
(submitted to Nordic Irish Studies
Journal)
‘Bucolic Ecology’, entry in
R. Thomas and J. Ziolkowski (eds) (forthcoming) Virgil Encyclopedia,
Wiley-Blackwell
‘Originality’ (2012) in C. Martindale, R.Pite, T. Saunders
and M.Skoie (eds) (2012) Romans and
Romantics. Oxford University Press
b)
already published
‘V krovotoke evropejskoj
literatury: eklogi Brodskogo’ [‘In the bloodstream of European
literature: Brodsky’s eclogues’], in P. Pesonen, G. Obatnin and T.
Huttunen (eds) (2010), Evropa v Rossii: sbornik statej [Europe in Russia: Collected Articles],
410-416
izdatel’stvo
NLO
[with
Tatjana
Kudrjavtseva].
‘Roman Borders and Contemporary Cultural Criticism’ Journal of Borderlands Studies
25.1: 51-65 (2010).
‘Using Green Words or Abusing
Bucolic Ground’ in M. Skoie and
S. Velázquez (eds) (2006) Pastoral
and
the
Humanities, Bristol Phoenix Press: 3-13.
‘Discipline and Receive, or
Making an Example out of Marsyas’ in
C. Martindale and R. Thomas (eds) (2006) Classics and the Uses of Reception,
Blackwell
Publishing:
32-43.
‘Finding Space for a Winter
Eclogue: Joseph Brodsky and Eclogue
4’ Russian Literature 59: 97-111
(2006) [with Tatjana Kudrjavtseva].
‘Ovid the Christian’ Nordlit
18: 153-163 (2005).
Reviews
K.
Volk
(ed)
(2009)
Oxford Readings in
Classical Studies: Vergil’s Eclogues. Oxford University Press,
in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2009.03.40
R.
Drew Griffith and Robert B. Marks (2008) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Agora: Ancient Greek and Roman Humour. Legacy Books Press, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.06.36
Publications on Contemporary Art
‘Things
Better
Left
Unsaid’
in
(2007) Far Away And Luminous. Jacopo
Benci, London/Rome.
‘Contemplating Conservation’ in (2003) Paula Kane, La Lettre Volée,
Bruxelles.
‘James Fisher’ in (2001) British
School at Rome Annual Catalogue, London/Rome.
Recent
and
Forthcoming
Conference
and Seminar Papers
2011
‘Homer
is
Enough:
Theocritus’ Dislocated Muses’, Literary Dislocations: Fourth
International Congress of the European Network for Comparative Literary
Studies, Skopje, Macedonia, 1-3 September 2011
2010
‘Greek
and
Latin
in
Brian Friel’s Translations’,
The Island and the Arts: The
7th Biennial International Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies
Network, University of Tromsø, 2-3 December 2010
‘Percy Shelley, Antiquity, and the Edges of the Ocean’, Navigating
Cultural
Spaces:
Images
of Coast and Sea, University of Kiel, 1-3
October 2010; and at the Boundaries
in and of Literature video seminar between NorthWest University
in South Africa and the University of Tromsø in Norway
‘EcoClassics’,
UK Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Classics Panel on
‘Sustainability’, UK Classical Association Annual Conference, Cardiff,
7-10 April 2010. A summary of my paper has been published online by the
UK Classics Subject Centre and is available as a pdf here.
2009
‘Originality’,
Romans
and
Romantics
Conference,
Norwegian
Institute in Rome, 16-17
April 2009.
2008
‘That Joke
Isn’t Funny Anymore: Virgil, Wordsworth and Pastoral Humour’, Bristol
Classics
Department Seminar, 18 November 2008.
‘Wordsworth, Virgil and the Humours of a Place’, Romanticism
and
Place,
Day
Conference and Workshop, Bristol, 24 September 2008.
‘Roman Borders and Contemporary Cultural Criticism’, ABS Conference: Cultural Production and Negotiation
of Borders, Kirkenes, 11-13 September 2008
‘Plain
Sailing in the Eclogues and Georgics’, Virgil
Conference, Tromsø, 8-10 May 2008.
2007
‘That Joke
Isn’t Funny Anymore: Wordsworth and Ancient Pastoral’, Oslo Workshop on
Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics and their Reception, 16-17
November 2007.
‘Joseph Brodsky and Three Eclogues’, at the Europe and Russia conference,
University of Helsinki, 28-30 August 2007 [with Tatjana Kudrjavtseva].
‘The Eclogues and the
Environment’, Institutt for filosofi, ide- og kunsthistorie og
klassiske språk, Universitetet i Oslo, 8 May 2007.
‘Wordsworth
and Virgil’s Eclogues’,
Faggruppe for gresk og latin, Universitetet i Bergen, 28 March 2007.
Conferences I have helped to organise:
2009
(with
Mathilde Skoie (Bergen), Charles Martindale
(Bristol) and Ralph Pite (Bristol)): ‘Romans and Romantics’ conference
at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, 16-17 April 2009.
2008
(with
Helène Whittaker von Hofsten): Virgil
Conference in Tromsø, 8-10 May 2008.
2007
In
2007,
I
helped
organise the seminar series for the Institute for
Culture and Literature (IKL) in Tromsø.
Short
CV
2010- Lecturer in English and
researcher on the Border Aesthetics project, Tromsø
2006-9 Postdoctoral scholar,
Tromsø
2002-6 Peripatetic gentleman
of letters, Bristol, St Petersburg,
Tromsø, Oxford
2001 Rome Scholar, British
School at Rome
1997-2001 PhD, Bristol
(thesis on Virgil’s Eclogues)
1996-7 MA in Classical
Literature and Civilization, Bristol (with
commendation)
1992-6 BA in Literae
Humaniores, Oxford (First class)
