Björn C. Ewald
First Name:
Björn C.
Last Name:
Ewald
Email :
bjoern.ewald@utoronto.ca
Title:
Associate Professor
Biography :
Selected Publications
- “Cornelia Gaskins Harcum (1878-1927)", in: Biographical Dictionary of Women Classicists, ed. J. Hallett and G. Whittaker (Brill, in preparation)
- “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, September 2019, in print) 109-165.
- “Kult und Körper: Götterbilder der Griechischen Klassik”, in: S. Koja, O. Westheider, M. Philipp (eds.), Götter des Olymp. Aus der Dresdner Skulpturensammlung, Barberini Studien 2 (Prestel Verlag/Random House 2018) 8–27.
- “Minding the Gap: Issues of Cultural Translation in Graeco-Roman Art”, in: D. Draycott, R. Raja, K. Welch, W. Wootton (eds.), Visual Histories of the Classical World. Essays in Honor of R.R.R. Smith (Brepols, 2018) 233–54.
- “Attic Sarcophagi: Myth Selection and the Heroizing Tradition”, in: B. Dignas and L. Audley-Miller (eds.), Wandering Myths. Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World (De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston 2018) 209–64.
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
