Victoria Rimell

Victoria Rimell (born 1974) is a British classicist and Professor of Latin at the University of Warwick. Among her publications are books on Ovid, Martial and Petronius.

Victoria Rimell
Academic background
Education	King's College, Cambridge King's College, London
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Sub-discipline	Latin Literature
Institutions	Roma La Sapienza Warwick University

Career

Rimell studied Classics at King's College, Cambridge where she received a BA and an MPhil degree. She then moved to King's College, London, graduating with a PhD in 2001. After working at University College, Oxford, and Cambridge University, she took up a position at Sapienza University of Rome in 2004.^[1] Since 2016, she has worked at Warwick University as an Associate Professor and, from 2018, as a Professor.^[2] She also serves on the council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.^[3] In 2020, she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.^[4]

Selected publications

• Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction, Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Ovid’s Lovers: Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 2006^[5]
• Martial’s Rome: Empire and the Ideology of Epigram, Cambridge University Press, 2008^[6]
• The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire’s Inward Turn, Cambridge University Press, 2015

References

1. "Victoria Rimell". uniroma1.it. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
2. "Professor Victoria Rimell". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
3. "Council Members". romansociety.org. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
4. "Academy of Europe: Victoria Rimell". The Academy of Europe. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
5. James, Sharon (October 2007). "(V.) Rimell Ovid's Lovers. Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination" (PDF). The Classical Review. 57 (2): 402–4. doi:10.1017/S0009840X07000698. S2CID 162769166.
6. Neger, Margot (October 2010). "Rimell (V. ) Martial's Rome. Empire and the Ideology of Epigram" (PDF). The Classical Review. 60 (2): 469–70. doi:10.1017/S0009840X10000661. S2CID 163795793.