Helen Lovatt

Lovatt studied at Millfield and then read Classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where she was awarded her PhD in 2000 with a dissertation on Games and realities in Statius, 'Thebaid 6'.{{Cite thesis|last=Lovatt|first=Helen|date=2000-01-01|title=Games and realities in Statius, 'Thebaid 6'|url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272014|publisher=Cambridge University|type=PhD|language=en|doi=10.17863/CAM.19024}} Lovatt lectured at Keele University before moving to a Junior Research Fellowship at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. In 2003 Lovatt joined the department of Classics at the University of Nottingham. Lovatt delivered her inaugural lecture as Professor of Classics, Epic Journeys, on 15 February 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/departments/classics-and-archaeology/news-and-events/news/news-archive/classics/2017/helen-lovatt-inaugural-lecture.aspx|title=Helen Lovatt holds her inaugural lecture, Epic Journeys - The University of Nottingham|website=www.nottingham.ac.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-09-06}}{{Cite news|url=http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/argonautsandemperors/2017/02/28/story-inaugural-professor-helen-lovatt/|title=The Story of an Inaugural, by Professor Helen Lovatt - Argonauts and Emperors|date=2017-02-28|work=Argonauts and Emperors|access-date=2018-09-06|language=en-US}}

Lovatt's PhD work on the athletic games in Statius' Thebaid was published as Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid (Cambridge University Press, 2005). In the book, Lovatt interpreted Statius' work as a microcosm of the whole epic tradition. More recently, Lovatt has worked on the epic tradition in both Latin and Greek literature, publishing a book on vision in epic from Homer to Nonnus, The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic (Cambridge University Press, 2013){{Cite journal|last=Bernstein|first=Neil W.|date=2014|title=Review of: The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-09-62.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}} and a co-edited work Epic Visions (Cambridge University Press, 2013) with Caroline Vout which resulted from a conference in Nottingham in 2003.{{Cite journal|last=Reitz|first=Christiane|date=2015-07-02|title=Epic Visions. Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception, written by H. Lovatt, C. Vout|journal=Mnemosyne|language=en|volume=68|issue=4|pages=704–709|doi=10.1163/1568525X-12341944|issn=1568-525X|url=https://semanticscholar.org/paper/5b512f0c01fcef56641fb351211a649d86948eb0}}

Lovatt currently works on classical reception, particularly in detective and children's literature, resulting in her co-edited volume Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation (I. B. Tauris, 2018) with Owen Hodkinson following a conference on the subject at the University of Wales, Lampeter in 2009.

• (2018) ed. with Owen Hodkinson Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation (I. B. Tauris)
• (2016) Flavian Spectacle: Paradox and Wonder. In: ZISSOS, A., ed., A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome Blackwell. 361–75.
• (2015) Following after Valerius: Argonautic moments in Statius’ Thebaid. In: DOMINIK, W.J., GERVAIS, K. and NEWLANDS, C., eds., Brill's Companion to Statius Brill. 408–24.
• (2013) The epic gaze: vision, gender and narrative in ancient epic (Cambridge University Press).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MW8NknUriRQC&dq=helen+lovatt&pg=PR7|title=The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic|last=Lovatt|first=Helen|date=2013-06-27|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107016118|language=en}}
• (2013) ed. with Caroline Vout Epic visions: visuality in Greek and Latin epic and its reception (Cambridge University Press).
• (2007) Statius, Orpheus, and the post-Augustan vates. Arethusa, 40(2), 145–163.{{Cite journal|last=Lovatt|first=Helen|date=2007-06-04|title=Statius, Orpheus, and the Post-Augustan Vates|journal=Arethusa|language=en|volume=40|issue=2|pages=145–163|doi=10.1353/are.2007.0015|s2cid=154379521|issn=1080-6504}}
• (2006) The female gaze in Flavian epic: looking out from the walls in Valerius Flaccus and Statius. In Nauta, Ruurd Robijn; Dam, Harm-Jan Van; Smolenaars, Johannes Jacobus Louis (eds.) Flavian Poetry (pp. 59–78). BRILL.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=86ChnuaNV50C|title=Flavian Poetry|last1=Nauta|first1=Ruurd Robijn|last2=Dam|first2=Harm-Jan Van|last3=Smolenaars|first3=Johannes Jacobus Louis|date=2006|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004147942|language=en}}
• (2005) [https://archive.org/details/statiusepicgames0000lova Statius and epic games: sport, politics and poetics in the Thebaid] (Cambridge University Press).{{Cite journal|last=Dewar|first=Michael|date=2009|title=Review of: Statius and Epic Games. Sport, Politics, and Poetics in the Thebaid. Cambridge Classical Studies|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-10-04.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}}
• (2001) Mad about Winning: Epic, War and Madness in the Games of Statius' Thebaid. Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, (46), 103–120.
• (1999) Competing Endings: Re-Reading the End of the Thebaid Through Lucan. Ramus, 28(2), 126–151.{{Cite journal|last=Lovatt|first=Helen|date=1999|title=Competing Endings: Re-Reading the End of the Thebaid Through Lucan|journal=Ramus|language=en|volume=28|issue=2|pages=126–151|doi=10.1017/S0048671X00001752|s2cid=146358667 |issn=0048-671X}}

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWvaBPq7h4I Ovid and the Argonauts: Heroides, Metamorphoses and Maffeo Vegio's Vellus Aureum] - lecture delivered to the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 3 June 2017

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