Björn C. Ewald
First Name:
Björn C.
Last Name:
Ewald
Email :
bjoern.ewald@utoronto.ca
Title:
Associate Professor
Biography :
Selected Publications
- "Attic Sarcophagi and the Art of Roman Greece: Imagery, Contexts, Culture" (monograph, in preparation)
- "Catalogue of Greek and Roman Marble Sculpture at the Royal Ontario Museum" (co-editor, with Paul Denis. With contributions from Graduate Students; in progress)
- "Philosophy and Philosophers in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds: Visual and Material Evidence for their Reception" (chapter, in preparation)
- "'Naval Gazing': Battles at the Ships on Attic Sarcophagi (Epinausimachy, Marathonomachy)" (article, forthcoming)
- “Cornelia Gaskins Harcum (1878-1927)", in: Biographical Dictionary of Women Classicists, ed. J. Hallett and G. Whittaker (Brill, in print)
- “Culture’s Visual Culture. The Iconography of Education, Intellectual and Literary Pursuits in Roman Art”, in P. Gemeinhardt (ed.), Was ist Bildung in der Vormoderne? (Mohr/Siebeck, 2019) 109-165.
Education:
PhD, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, 1996 (thesis published in 1999)
People Type:
Research Area:
Areas of Interest:
- Art and archaeology (Roman)
- Art and subjectivity
- Funerary art
- Myth in art
- Sculpture and painting, Roman Greece
- City of Rome
- Cultural translation
- Empathy and embodiment in Art
- Neuroarthistory
- Ancient spatialities
- Critical approaches in art history
- Philosophy and Philosophers in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds
Administrative Service:
Associate Chair, Graduate Studies, July-December 2015
