Michèle Lowrie

Michèle Lowrie
Occupation(s)	Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor, Classics and the College
Academic background
Alma mater	Yale University (BA, 1984); Harvard University (PhD, 1990)
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Institutions	University of Chicago

Michèle Lowrie is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service [1] Professor of Classics and the college at the University of Chicago. She is a specialist in Roman literature and political thought.

Education

Lowrie completed a bachelor's degree at Yale University in 1984, followed by a PhD at Harvard University in 1990.[2] Her doctoral thesis was entitled 'Horace's Lyric Exempla' and she was supervised by Richard Tarrant.[3]

Career

Lowrie began teaching at New York University in 1990 after the completion of her doctorate, as Assistant and Associate Professor of Classics.[4] She was awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the university while writing her first monograph, Horace's Narrative Odes.[3]

During the period of 2000–2001, she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton[5] and held the Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.[2] This was while she was working on Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (published 2009).[6] In late 2005, she held a visiting research professorship at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg.[7]

She moved to the University of Chicago in 2009.[4] She held a fellowship at the Research Center for Cultural Theory and Theory of the Political Imaginary at the Universität Konstanz in 2010–11,[4] and visited the Center for Advanced Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2018 to collaborate with Barbara Vinken on a book entitled Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond: The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern, which came out in 2022.[8][9]

Lowrie was granted a Loeb Classical Library fellowship and made the Dirk Ippen Fellow for spring 2016 at the American Academy in Berlin, while working on a project entitled 'Safety, Security, and Salvation in Roman Political Thought,' which explored the Roman origins of concepts like national security or emergency and their relationships with societal values.[10][11] She also gave the J.H. Gray Lectures at the University of Cambridge in 2018.[4]

While completing her book project on security as a Roman metaphor, Lowrie was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in the 2018-19 cycle,[12] during which she also held an Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship at St. Aidan's College, Durham University in spring 2019.[4]

Selected publications

• Horace's Narrative Odes (1997). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Writing, Performance and Authority in Augustan Rome (2009). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• (ed.) Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace, Odes and Epodes (2009). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• (ed., with Susanne Lüdemann), Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature and Law (2015). London: Routledge.
• Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond: The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern, jointly authored with Barbara Vinken (2022). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bibliography

1. "Michèle Lowrie | Department of Classics".
2. "Michèle Lowrie | Department of Classics". classics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
3. Lowrie, Michèle (1997). Horace's Narrative Odes. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. viii. ISBN 0-19-815053-9.
4. "Institute of Advanced Study : Professor Michèle Lowrie - Durham University". www.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
5. "Michèle Lowrie". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
6. Lowrie, Michèle (2009). Writing, performance, and authority in Augustan Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. xiii. ISBN 978-0-19-954567-4. OCLC 318409824.
7. "Guest Lectures of The Research Initiative Cultural Theory and Theory of the Political Imaginary". www.uni-konstanz.de. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
8. "Prof. Michèle Lowrie, Ph.D. - Center for Advanced Studies LMU (CAS) - LMU München". www.cas.uni-muenchen.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-20.
9. The historiography of Late Republican Civil War. Lange, Carsten Hjort, Vervaet, Frederik. Leiden. 29 July 2019. pp. xi. ISBN 978-90-04-40952-1. OCLC 1111650610.
10. "Michèle Lowrie". American Academy. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
11. Yale Department of Classics Newsletter, Summer 2015 (PDF). 2015.
12. "Michèle Lowrie and Claudia Brittenham Receive NEH Fellowships | Division of the Humanities". humanities.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-20.

External links

• Public lecture at the American Academy in Berlin (2016): 'Security, a Roman Metaphor' https://www.americanacademy.de/videoaudio/security-roman-metaphor/
• 'Beyond the Lecture' podcast appearance at the American Academy in Berlin: https://soundcloud.com/american-academy-berlin/beyond-the-lecture-michele-lowrie
• Gray Lectures (University of Cambridge, 2018):
  • 'Salus: hierarchy, reciprocity, and embodied safety' https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2751816
  • 'Cura: anxiety and tending in Vergil and Horace'https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2751839
  • 'Securitas: emperor and citizen' https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2751851
• Public lecture at Durham University (2019) - 'Security and the caring leader in Vergil's Aeneid and Roman Imperial Ideology' https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ias/audio/Lowrie.mp3