Katharina Lorenz

Katharina Lorenz is Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology in the Department of Classics and Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the University of Nottingham. She studied Classical archaeology, ancient history and Greek at Berlin, Oxford, Rome and Heidelberg and was an associate member of the research group Image – Body – Media (Institute for Visual Media, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe); in Autumn 2015/16 she held a visiting professorship at Humboldt-University Berlin; from April 2016 to March 2017 she was a research fellow at the Morphomata Centre of Advanced Study at the University of Cologne. Her main research interest is in the methodologies for the study of Classical art and their implications for historical understanding. She is the author of Bilder machen Räume. Mythenbilder in pompeianischen Häusern (Berlin, 2008) and Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 2016); she has published widely on Greek and Roman visual narrative, Roman painting and the domestic context, art historiography and intellectual history, and digital heritage engagement. New blog post: http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2016/10/empowering-images/