Affiliation: University of Graz
Keywords:
Greek literature, collaborative authorship, anonymity, satire, rhetoric of consolation, cognitive theory, history of Classics
Full profile:
Markus studied Classics, Philosophy and Education at LMU Munich, Germany, and the University of Athens, Greece. He received his doctorate in Munich in 2016 with a thesis on Lucian the satirist. After teaching and research activities at the University of Heidelberg and the Humboldt University of Berlin, he became Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, in 2018/2019. Since then, Markus has been Lecturer, Assistant Professor and, since 2023, Associate Professor of Classics specializing in Greek literature at the University of
Graz, Austria.
In the years 2024-2028, Markus is PI in a research group as part of an ERC project that deals with questions of anonymous authorship in ancient literature. His research interests include the bilingual Graeco-Roman educational culture and rhetoric of the first centuries CE, e.g. satire and consolation literature, the history of Classics, especially in the 20th century, and concepts of authorship in ancient literature, including forms of anonymity, author fictions, and gender aspects. He is also interested in forms of collective creativity and cognition.