PhD

Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Abteilung Altertumswissenschaften | Department Classical Studies

E-Mail
laura.gianvittorio-ungar(at)oeaw.ac.at

1020 Wien, Hollandstraße 11-13

Kurzbiografie

Studium der Klassischen Philologie (Chieti), Promotion mit einer Arbeit über die Sprache der Vorsokratiker (Palermo). Ab 2007 Post-Doc Stellen, Lehraufträge und längere Forschungsaufenthalte an den Universitäten Salzburg, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Nottingham, Heidelberg und Wien. Seit 2012 auch verantwortlich für FWF-Projekte über Aischylos (Programme: Hertha Firnberg und Elise Richter). 

Biographie

Biographie

Current and previous positions 
since Jan. 2021Postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Cluster Archaeology and Classics
May 2014 – Dec. 2020Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna (Austria), Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein
Apr. – Sept. 2014Lecturer at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Seminar für Klassische Philologie
Oct. 2013– Jan. 2014Visiting scholar at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), Department of Classics
Oct. 2012 – Apr. 2014Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Salzburg (Austria), Fachbereich Altertumswissenschaften
May 2013 Research fellow of the Fondation Hardt, Vandoeuvres Genève (Switzerland)
Oct. 2011 – Sept. 2012 Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany), Seminar für Klassische Philologie
Oct. 2007 – Sept. 2011Research Assistant and lecturer at the University of Salzburg (Austria), Fachbereich Altertumswissenschaften. Extra responsibilities: coordination of the Erasmus Program, co-development of degree curricula, managing assistant of the Department in the spring term 2011 
Oct. 2005– Jul. 2006 Visiting scholar at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany), Seminar für Klassische Philologie
Jan. 2005– Feb. 2008 PhD student at the University of Palermo (Italy), Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
  
  
Education 
2005 – 2008PhD at the University of Palermo (Italy). PhD thesis: Il linguaggio dei Presocratici
2000 – 2004MA in Classics at the University of Chieti (Italy), Diploma thesis: La musa laica. Studio comparativo sull’ispirazione poetica nell’antichità greca ed ebraica. Advisor: Prof. Massimo Vetta. Graduation with distinction
Summer Term 2003Erasmus Program at the University of Passau (Germany)
1995 – 2000Grammar school in Pescara (Italy). Graduation with distinction
  
Sponsored projects and grants 
since 2020Co-investigator of Fundación BBVA (Spain)/Improntas de danza antigua (IDA). PI: Zoa Alonso Fernández
since 2015PI of FWF−Austrian Science Fund/Elise Richter Program (EUR 253.490)
2012 – 2015 PI of FWF−Austrian Science Fund/Hertha Firnberg Program (EUR 206.340)
2010FWF−Austrian Science Fund/Publication grant
2005 – 2008MIUR-Italian Ministry of Education and Research: 3-year grant for doctoral studies
2000 – 2004MIUR-Italian Ministry of Education and Research: 4-year grant for tuition fees 
2003Erasmus mobility grant 
2000Flaiano Prize for literary criticism - Youth category (EUR 2.000)


Forschungsschwerpunkt

Theaterformen, Gattungsdiskurse und Tanz in der griechischen und römischen Kultur.

Mitglied der Forschungsgruppe

Antike Musik

Aktuelle Projekte

  • »Aischylos’ diegetisches Drama«

Publikationen

Publikationen

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Lehrtätigkeit

Lehrtätigkeit

  • at the University of Vienna (Austria)

Winter Term 2018/19               Lecture: Anfänge der griechischen Theatergattungen

Summer Term 2015                   Seminar: Lukian über Philosophie

  • at the University of Heidelberg (Germany)

Summer Term 2014                   Seminar: Tragödie im Spannungsfeld der Gattungen

  • at the University of Chieti (Italy)

Summer Term 2014                   Block seminars: Paratragedia nella tradizione comica

  • at the University of Salzburg (Austria):

Summer Term 2013                   Lecture: Paraphilosophia: zwischen Komödie und Philosophie

Summer Term 2011                   Undergraduate seminar: Hesiod, Werke und Tage

                                                    Exercise course on Greek Language with focus on morphology

Winter Term 2010/11              Undergraduate seminar: Aristophanes Frösche und die Rezeption der Tragödie

                                                    Lecture: Ringvorlesung Altertumswissenschaften

Summer Term 2010                  Undergraduate seminar: Sophokles, Antigone

Winter Term 2009/10              Undergraduate seminar: Xenophanes und die archaischesophia

Summer Term 2009                  Guide of a study trip for Latin students to Rome

  • at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany)

Winter Term 2011/12              Greek Language and Grammar

                                                     Exercise course: Platon,Ion

Summer Term 2012                   Exercise course: Aristoteles, Poetik

  • at the University of Palermo (Italy):

Winter Term 2010/11                Erasmus teaching mobility: La nascita del linguaggio filosofico

Summer Term 2007                    Greek language for philosophy students

                                               Supervision

Winter Term 2014/15                Evaluation of doctoral thesis

Summer Term 2019                    Co-supervision of master thesis