Dr Janja Soldo

Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature

Biography

Background

I joined the Classics Department permanently in August 2022, having previously taught Latin and Greek language and literature in Ireland (Maynooth), Wales (Swansea) and Germany (Munich). I gained my PhD in Munich in 2018 with a commentary on the second book of Seneca's Epistulae Morales. 

I welcome enquiries from postgraduates who want to work on Seneca the Younger and/or other letter writers. 

Undergraduate teaching

Sub-Honours

Latin 2A: Seneca De Brevitate Vitae 

Latin 1C: Vergil Aeneid 2

Roman World 1A 

Honours

Greek and Roman Letters 

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD students on any topic related to Seneca the Younger or ancient letter writing. 

Current PhD students supervised

Callum Hendleman: Constructing and Addressing Female Voices in Late Byzantine Literary Culture (co-supervision with Niels Gaul and Yannis Stouraitis)

Research summary

Places: 

  • Europe

Themes: 

  • Language & Literature

Periods: 

  • Antiquity

Research interests

My research focuses primarily on ancient letter writers, in particular Seneca the Younger and Fronto, and letter collections more generally. In 2021, my first book was published with OUP: Seneca Epistulae Morales Book 2. A Commentary with Text, Translation & Introduction. Together with Claire Rachel Jackson, I have published the edited book 'Fictionality in Ancient Epistolography' (De Gruyter 2023). I am also the co-editor of 'Fallibility and fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and LIterature', an edited collection that I published together with Therese Fuhrer in 2023 (De Gruyter).  

 

Current research activities

I am currently involved in editing a book on Italo Calvino and the Classics (together with Lisa Cordes and Marco Formisano; to be published by Brill in December 2024) and I am working on two projects on ancient epistolography: female letter writers and addressees in Graeco-Roman antiquity and a study of addressees in ancient letter collections.

Organiser

I am organising a workshop on ancient epistolography which will take place in Edinburgh in February 2025. It will be the first meeting of the Durham/Edinburgh/Glasgow network on ancient letter writing. Please get in touch if you are interested in the network. 

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