New Humboldt Research Awardee at LMU
9 Oct 2025
The Classicist Marco Fantuzzi (University College London) has received a Humboldt Research Award.
9 Oct 2025
The Classicist Marco Fantuzzi (University College London) has received a Humboldt Research Award.
The Classicist Marco Fantuzzi (University College London) has received a Humboldt Research Award and will be hosted by Regina Höschele at the LMU Department of Greek and Latin Philology.
Professor Marco Fantuzzi is an internationally renowned scholar of Greek literature, particularly of post-classical poetry. His groundbreaking studies combine the rigour of traditional philology with great literary sensitivity, revealing to a generation of readers the allusive sophistication, self-consciousness, and generic experimentation of Hellenistic verse. During his stay at LMU Munich, Professor Fantuzzi will continue his current research on the evolution of “Bucolic Loves” from Theocritus’ Idylls to Longus’ pastoral novel Daphnis and Chloe, and will co-teach a graduate seminar on this topic together with his host, Professor Regina Höschele.
Marco Fantuzzi studied Classical Philology at the Universities of Bologna and Pisa. After teaching positions in Trento, Florence, and Macerata, he held a visiting professorship at Columbia University in New York from 2006 to 2015. From 2017 to 2022 he was Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton in London. He is currently Research Fellow in Greek & Latin at University College London and Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies and Trinity College Dublin.