Staff Profile:Professor Peter Kruschwitz

Name:

Professor Peter Kruschwitz

Job Title:

Head of Department, Professor

Responsibilities:

• Head of Department, Department of Classics
• Member of Senate

Office hours: by appointment.

Areas of Interest:

I am a Latin scholar. My research interests most notably embrace the Latin language, literature, and epigraphy of the Roman Republic. I am an expert in Roman Drama, Plautus and Terence in particular, Roman verse inscriptions (Carmina Latina Epigraphica), and in the study of Latin wall inscriptions (graffiti). I have published widely on Roman Republican poetry, including an edition and commentary of the so-called Saturnian Verse Inscriptions (Carmina Saturnia Epigraphica, 2002), a full-scale introduction to Terence (Terenz, 2004), a study of Wackernagel's Law in the Republican inscriptions (Römische Inschriften und Wackernagels Gesetz, 2004), a study of the development of Roman didactic poetry in the Republican era (Das vorklassische Lehrgedicht der Römer, 2005), a conference volume reassessing text, language, metre, and poetics of Terence (Terentius Poeta, 2007), and a handbook on the Carmina Latina Epigraphica of the Republican period (Die metrischen Inschriften der römischen Republik, 2007).

Currently my main research activities are organised around four distinct strands:

• Roman song culture (with particular emphasis on subliterary sources such as the Carmina Latina Epigraphica) and performing arts
• Latin wall inscriptions of the Vesuvian settlements Pompeii and Herculaneum (and beyond)
• Latin linguistics and Latin metre
• Julius Caesar's commentaries on the Gallic War

I am about to finalise a new introduction to Roman metre as well as a ground-breaking re-assessment of the use of Latin subject pronouns. I am also involved in the edition of a new supplement to Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum IV, containing the wall inscriptions of the Vesuvian cities.

Future projects will most notably include a new commentary on Caesar's Bellum Gallicum as well as an edition of the fragments of the Roman Republican playwright Accius in the context of the Tragicorum Romanorum Fragmenta project.

Supervision of PhD students:

I would be delighted to supervise research students in any of the aforementioned (or related) areas.

Currently under my supervision:

• Orazio Camaioni (on Varro's Antiquitates Rerum Humanarum)
• Clare Coombe (on Claudian's poetics)

Research groups / Centres:

Language, Text and Power.

Publications:

Recently published (2009-):

• Kruschwitz, P. and Campbell, V. (2010 [2011]): "Lucius Caltilius Pamphilus and his wife Servilia reunited (CIL X 1021 + X 1046)", Tyche. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 25, 49-54.
  Media coverage (selection): Discovery Channel; Metro; The Scotsman; Reading Post; BBC Berkshire. - Follow-up report: Discovery News.
• Kruschwitz, P. (2010): "Gallic War Songs: "Furius Bibaculus' Annales Belli Gallici", Philologus. Zeitschrift für antike Literatur und ihre Rezeption 154, 285-305.
• Kruschwitz, P. (2010): "Dic nomen: Die Einführung der Namen der handelnden Charaktere bei Terenz", Hermes. Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie 138, 419-433.
• Kruschwitz, P. (2010): "Alles nur ein Mißverständnis: Zu Erklärung und gedanklicher Struktur von Terenz, Andria 954-956", Hermes. Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie 138, 370-376.
• Kruschwitz, P. (2010): "Attitudes towards wall inscriptions in the Roman Empire", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 174, 207-218.
• Kruschwitz, P. and Halla-aho, H. (2010): "Colloquial and literary language in early Roman tragedy", in E. Dickey - A. Chahoud (edd.), Colloquial and Literary Latin, Cambridge, 127-153.
• Kruschwitz, P. (2010): "Tree Inscriptions: restoring a lost facet of the Graeco-Roman epigraphic habit", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 173, 45-62.
• Kruschwitz, P. and Campbell, V. (2009 [2010]): "What the Pompeians saw: representations of document types in Pompeian drawings and paintings (and their value for linguistic research)", Arctos. Acta philologica Fennica 43, 57-84.
• Kruschwitz, P. (2009 [2010]): "Lateinische Epigraphik zur Zeit des dreißigjährigen Krieges: Eine Trouvaille", Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia 81, 501-518.
• Kruschwitz, P. (2010): "Romanes eunt domus. Linguistic Aspects of the Sub-Literary Latin in Pompeian Wall Inscriptions", in: T. V. Evans - D. D. Obbink (edd.), The Language of the Papyri, Oxford, 156-170.
• Kruschwitz, P. (2009): "Ruminari rehashed: On Livius Andronicus, Aegisthus frg. IV R.²", Materiali e discussioni 63, 157-164.
• Kruschwitz, P. (2008 [2009]): "Patterns of Text Layout in Pompeian Verse Inscriptions", Studia Philologica Valentina 11 (n. s. 8), 225-264.
• Kruschwitz, P. (2008 [2009]): "CIL VIII 19 revisited", Arctos. Acta philologica Fennica 42, 77-83.

In Press / Forthcoming:

• Kruschwitz, P. (2012): "Language, Sex, and (Lack of) Power: Reassessing the Linguistic Discourse about Female Speech in Latin Sources", Athenaeum 100.
• Kruschwitz, P., Campbell, V. L., and Nicholls, M. C.: (2012): "Menedemerumenus: Tracing the Routes of Pompeian Graffiti Writers", in: Tyche. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 27.
• Kruschwitz, P. and Cleary-Venables, A. (forthcoming): "How to apologise in Latin: a case study", in: Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium.
• Kruschwitz, P. (forthcoming): "How to Avoid Profanity in Latin: An Exploratory Study", in: Materiali e discussioni.
• Kruschwitz, P. and Felice, E. M. (forthcoming): "Youth Language Phenomena in Ancient Rome", in: Omnibus.
• Kruschwitz, P. (forthcoming): "Memento mori: The Use(s) of the Future Imperative in the Carmina Latina Epigraphica", in: J. Gómez Pallarès - J. del Hoyo - M. Limón - C. Fernández Martínez (edd), Ex officina: literatura epigrafica en verso, Seville.
• Kruschwitz, P. and Coombe, C. (forthcoming): "I, Claudian: The syntactical and metrical alignment of ego in Claudian and his epic predecessors", Hermes. Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie.
• Kruschwitz, P. (forthcoming): "Linguistic Variation, Language Change, and the Latin Inscriptions", in: J. Edmondson - C. Bruun (edd.), Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, Oxford.
  

For a full list of publications, click here.

Qualifications:
MA (Freie Universität Berlin), PhD (Freie Universität Berlin), FHEA, FRHistS.

I joined the University of Reading in 2007. Previously I was a member of the research staff of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1997-2007, on leave 2005-7), before I obtained a prestigious two-year Emmy Noether scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2005-7). I am a Former Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (Hilary and Trinity Terms, 2007), and I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

I am a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Research Programme Language, Script, and Acculturation of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. In 2010 I became member of the consejo asesor of the Spanish Classical journal Habis (Seville), and in 2011 I joined the editorial board of Bryn Mawr Classical Review.