Victoria Rimell

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| education = King's College, Cambridge
King's College, London

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| discipline = Classics

| sub_discipline = Latin Literature

| workplaces = Roma La Sapienza
Warwick University

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Victoria Rimell (born 1974) is a British classicist and Professor of Latin at the University of Warwick. Among her publications are books on Ovid, Martial and Petronius.

Career

Rimell studied Classics at King's College, Cambridge where she received a BA and an MPhil degree. She then moved to King's College, London, graduating with a PhD in 2001. After working at University College, Oxford, and Cambridge University, she took up a position at Sapienza University of Rome in 2004.{{cite web|url=https://www.lettere.uniroma1.it/users/victoria-rimell|title=Victoria Rimell|website=uniroma1.it|access-date=9 June 2019}} Since 2016, she has worked at Warwick University as an Associate Professor and, from 2018, as a Professor.{{cite web|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/staff/rimell/|title=Professor Victoria Rimell|website=warwick.ac.uk|access-date=9 June 2019}} She also serves on the council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.{{cite web|url=http://www.romansociety.org/about/governance/council-members.html|title=Council Members|website=romansociety.org|access-date=9 June 2019}} In 2020, she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Rimell_Victoria|title=Academy of Europe: Victoria Rimell|access-date=2020-12-03|website=The Academy of Europe}}

Selected publications

Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Ovid’s Lovers: Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 2006{{Cite journal|title=(V.) Rimell Ovid's Lovers. Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination.|journal=The Classical Review|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/AB132302D0187A4E58847D403E0033F9/S0009840X07000698a.pdf/v_rimell_ovids_lovers_desire_difference_and_the_poetic_imagination_pp_viii_235_cambridge_cambridge_university_press_2006_cased_50_us90_isbn_9780521862196.pdf|last=James|first=Sharon|date=October 2007 |volume=57|issue=2 |pages=402–4|doi=10.1017/S0009840X07000698|s2cid=162769166}}
Martial’s Rome: Empire and the Ideology of Epigram, Cambridge University Press, 2008{{Cite journal|title=Rimell (V. ) Martial's Rome. Empire and the Ideology of Epigram|journal=The Classical Review|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/E6A6C07E8E3EC062FDBD5CAC7B829BF7/S0009840X10000661a.pdf/martial_and_rome_v_rimell_martials_rome_empire_and_the_ideology_of_epigram_pp_viii_231_cambridge_cambridge_university_press_2008_cased_50_us99_isbn_9780521828222.pdf|last=Neger|first=Margot|date=October 2010 |volume=60|issue=2 |pages=469–70|doi=10.1017/S0009840X10000661|s2cid=163795793}}
The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire’s Inward Turn, Cambridge University Press, 2015

References

Category:British classical scholars

Category:British women classical scholars

Category:Living people

Category:Alumni of King's College London

Category:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge

Category:1974 births

Category:Members of Academia Europaea