Victoria Austen: Abbreviated CV
Education
PhD in Classics, King’s College London (2020).
MA Classics, Merit, King’s College London (2012).
BA Classical Civilisation, First Class Honours, Swansea University (2010).
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor in Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2024–).
Robert Oden Postdoctoral Fellow in Innovation in the Humanities (Classics), Carleton College (2022-2024).
Lecturer in Classics, University of Winnipeg (2019-2022).
Publications
Analysing the Boundaries of the Roman Garden: (Re)Framing the Hortus’, Bloomsbury Ancient Environments Series (monograph, published March 2023).
‘Columella’s Prose Preface: A Paratextual Reading of De Re Rustica Book 10’, Syllecta Classica 31: 95-122.
Selected Awards and Honours
Society for Classical Studies Outreach Prixe 2023 (awarded to Peopling the Past team.)
Classical Association of Canada Elaine Fantham Award for Public Engagement 2022 (awarded to Peopling the Past team).
Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, UK.
Shortlisted (x2) for Best Graduate Student Paper, Classical Association of Canada Annual Conference.
Recent Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
‘Gardens of Commemoration: From Rome to America – The Wilhelmina and Stanley Jashemski Annual Lecture’, AIA Iowa Invited Speaker (2024)
‘A Garden of (Re)Commemoration in the Mausoleum of Augustus’, AIA Niagara Peninsula Chapter Invited Speaker (2024).
‘Wiki-Education and the Classics Classroom’, New Directions in Classics seminar series, University of Winnipeg (2023).
‘Seneca’s Thyestes and the Anti-Garden within the House of Atreus’, Classical Association of Canada Conference (2022).
‘Distinguit et Miscet: Framing Garden Spaces in Elite Roman Villa Gardens’, Dalhousie University Classics Seminar series (2021)
‘#WCCWiki – Using Wikipedia for Public Engagement and Mobilising Change’, New Directions in Classics seminar series, University of Winnipeg (2020)
‘Columella’s Prose Preface: A Paratextual Reading of De Re Rustica Book 10’, Society for Classical Studies Annual Conference, January (2019)
‘Who has the time? Cultivating the garden space in Virgil, Georgics 4.116-148’, Classical Association of Canada Conference, May (2017).
Service to the Profession
Social Media Co-Ordinator, Peopling the Past (2022-)
Communications Officer, Women’s Network of Classical Association of Canada (2019-2022).