Temp. lecturer in Latin at the Department of History and Classics at NTNU.
Doctoral degree from the University of Bergen under the supervision of Stephen J. Harrison, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford and University of Bergen.
Projects
Ovid’s Literary Career
Sapphic Receptions at Rome
Main areas of interest
Archaic Greek lyric, esp. Sappho
Augustan poetry, esp. Ovid
Mediaeval Receptions of Ovid
History of Classical Scholarship
Modern literary theory
Main publications (books)
The Creation of a Writer. The Epistula Sapphus and Ovid’s Early Poetry (thesis book, in the process of revision for publication at Cambridge University Press)
Ovid. Ars Amandi – Kunsten å elske (transl. Gyldendal, 2006)