• 2022
  Habilitation/venia docendi in Classics (Greek and Latin Studies)
• 2008
  PhD in Philosophy of Language at the University of Palermo (Italy). PhD thesis: Il linguaggio dei Presocratici
• 2004
  MA in Classics at the University of Chieti (Italy), Diploma thesis: La musa laica. Studio comparativo sull’ispirazione poetica nell’antichità greca ed ebraica. Advisor: Prof. Massimo Vetta
• 2003
  Erasmus Program at the University of Passau (Germany)
• 2000
  Graduation at grammar school in Pescara (Italy)

• Oct. 2022
  Marie Jahoda Research Fellow and lecturer at the University of Vienna
• Jan. 2021
  Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut (ÖAI)/Abteilung Altertumswissenschaften
• June – July 2020
  Visiting researcher at the APGRD, University of Oxford. Sponsor: Prof. Fiona Macintosh (postponed due to the Covid-19 crisis)
• May 2014 – Dec. 2020
  Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna (Austria), Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein
• Jan. 2016 – Mar. 2017
  Maternity leave
• Apr. – Sept. 2014
  Lecturer at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Seminar für Klassische Philologie. Sponsor: Prof. Jonas Grethlein
• Oct. 2013– Jan. 2014
  Visiting scholar at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), Department of Classics. Sponsor: Prof. Alan Sommerstein
• Oct. 2012 – Apr. 2014
  Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Salzburg (Austria), Fachbereich Altertumswissenschaften
• May 2013
  Research fellow of the Fondation Hardt, Vandoeuvres Genève (Switzerland)
• Oct. 2011 – Sept. 2012
  Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany), Seminar für Klassische Philologie
• Oct. 2007 – Sept. 2011
  Research Assistant and lecturer at the University of Salzburg (Austria), Fachbereich Altertumswissenschaften. Extra responsibilities: coordination of the Erasmus Program, development of degree curricula, managing assistant of the Department in the spring term 2011
• Oct. 2005– Jul. 2006
  Visiting scholar at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany), Seminar für Klassische Philologie
• Jan. 2005– Feb. 2008
  PhD student at the University of Palermo (Italy), Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia

Scientific board: Telestes: Journal of Archaeomusicology and Archaeology of Sound

Peer review activity: Classical Quarterly, Journal of Hellenic Studies, American Journal of Philology, Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, Danza e Ricerca, Dionysus ex machina, Asiatische Studien, Perspective-La revue de l’INHA

Memberships: MOISA - International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music, DSA - Dance Studies Association, CID UNESCO – International Dance Council, Center for Studies in Oral Tradition

Research advisor for professional theatre companies that re-work ancient plays    

• Dec. 2022 - Aug. 2023
  Marie Jahoda Fellowship of the University of Vienna (EUR 32.000)
• Jan. 2020 - Sept. 2022
  Co-investigator of IDA-Imprints of Ancient Dance: Fundación BBVA (Spain) (Principal Investigator: Zoa Alonso Fernández)
• Jan. 2016 - Dec. 2022
  Principal Investigator of Re-imaginig Ancient Tragedy: FWF−Austrian Science Fund/Elise Richter Program (EUR 253.490)
• Sept. 2012 - Dec. 2015
  Principal Investigator of Aeschylus’ Narrative Drama: FWF−Austrian Science Fund/Hertha Firnberg Program (EUR 206.340)
• 2010 
  Publication grant of the FWF−Austrian Science Fund
• 2005 - 2008
  MIUR-Italian Ministry of Education and Research: 3-year grant for doctoral studies
• 2000 - 2004
  MIUR-Italian Ministry of Education and Research: 4-year grant for tuition fees
• 2003
  Erasmus mobility grant (6 months)
• 2000
  Flaiano Prize for literary criticism (youth category) 

• Jun. 22nd-23rd 2018
  Narratives in Motion. The Art of Dancing Stories in Antiquity and Beyond, University of Vienna (Austria). Speakers & dancers: S. Bocksberger, J. Bührle, K. Fenböck, E. Ganser, M.-H. Garelli, L. Gianvittorio-Ungar, S. L. Gilliam, N. Haitzinger, E. May, A.-E. Peponi, P. Purkayastha, K. Schlapbach, R. Webb, Y. Zarifi-Sistovari
• Nov. 13th-14th, 2015
  Greek Theatre Beyond the Canon, University of Vienna (Austria). Speakers: E. Csapo, P. Finglass, L. Gianvittorio, E. Hall, V. Liapis, G. Martin, E. Medda, T. Marshall, H.-G. Nesselrath, L. Rodríguez-Noriega Guillén

• Oct. 27th, 2022
  Transmitting embodied knowledge in ancient Greece: the case of dance, Wisdom between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and beyond, Turin
• Sept. 22nd, 2022
  Petrifying Performances. Niobe in theatre and pantomime, IDA-Improntas de danza antigua, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
• Apr. 22nd, 2022
  Dance & Politics, IDA-Imprints of Ancient Dance, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
• Jan. 7th, 2022
  Dance costumes and the inanimate bodies of ancient dance, Archaeological Institute of America, Colloquium on Archaeomusicology, San Francisco CA
• Nov. 26th, 2020
  Dance in Drama. The dance of the horned maiden, International Dance Council (UNESCO), Athens
• Sep. 2nd, 2020
  Tragic Choruses: from Athens to Rome, LEC-UFF in Quarantine: online lectures, University of Rio de Janeiro
• Jun. 5th, 2020
  Sacrifice and Oracle in Greek and Roman Antiquity, TQW-TanzQuartierWien
• May 2020
  Hellenizing Eurhythmic Dance, Dancing with the Ancients, European Centre for Theatre Practices, Gardzienice (postponed due to Covid-19)
• Jun. 18th-19th, 2019
  Choral and anti-choral models in Naevius’ Lycurgus and Ennius’ Eumenides, The dance of priests, matronae and philosophers. Aspects of dance culture in Rome and in the Roman Empire, University of Fribourg
• Jul. 4th-7th, 2018
  The Performative Narratives of Early Tragedy, Pragmatics and Ancient Drama, University of Zurich
• Jul. 28th, 2017
  New Music and Dancing Prostitutes, 10th Moisa Meeting: The ‘Revolution’ of the New Music, Jesus College, Oxford
• Jun. 27th, 2017
  Buchpräsentation Choreutika. Performing and Theorising Dance in Ancient Greece, University of Vienna
• Nov. 13th−14th, 2015
  A Choreographic Approach to the parodos of Seven against Thebes, Greek Theatre beyond the Canon, University of Vienna
• Jun. 18th−19th, 2015
  Choreographie einer Belagerung (zu Aisch. Sept. 78-181), Klangräume und Emotionen im antiken und modernen Theater, University of Graz
• Jun. 13th, 2015
  Enemy at the Gates. Dancing the Seven against Thebes, Altgriechische Dichtung, University of Heidelberg
• Nov. 21st−22nd, 2014
  Ein tragischer Todestanz. Textuelle und archäologische Indizien einer Choreographie, Chorfiguren, University of Münster
• Nov. 14th−15th, 2014
  Rudere, rudere mir zuliebe! (Aisch. Pers. 1046), Antikes Theater: Kult-Spiel-Dichtung, University of Vienna
• Jun. 12th−13th, 2014
  Ein threnodischer Tanz zwischen extraszenischem und choreographischem Raum, Multiple Räume. Rahmungen und Raumrelationen im antiken und modernen Theater, University of Graz
• May 22nd 2014
  Eschilo e il dramma diegetico, University of Chieti
• May 21st 2014
  La paratragedia nella tradizione comica, University of Chieti
• May 20th 2014
  Sul finale delle Vespe di Aristofane, University of Chieti
• Jan. 29th 2014
  Aischylos zwischen Drama und Erzählung, University of Vienna
• Nov. 11th 2013
  Narratives in Aeschylus’ Persians and Suppliants, University of Nottingham
• Oct. 7th−12th 2013
  Heraklit auf der Bühne? Heraklit von Ephesos und seine Zeit, Selçuk/Ephesus
• Sept. 11th−12th, 2012
  invitational participation to the debate of Symposium Heracliteum, University of Cambridge
• Jan. 18th, 2012
  Illokutives und rhetorisches Potential der Erzählung. Klassische Antike und Poststrukturalismus, University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• Oct. 29th, 2011
  Epicarmo di Siracusa. Dialogo drammatico, (para)filosofico, intertestuale, Dialog über den Dialog. Formen und Funktionen des literarischen Dialogs in Antike, Villa Vigoni, Como
• Apr. 29th, 2011
  Erzählen als rhetorisches Handeln, Salzburg-Tübinger Rhetorikgespräche 2011, University of Salzburg
• Feb. 4th, 2011
  Tragedia greca tra pragmatica, retorica e narratologia, University of Palermo
• Feb. 2nd, 2011
  Produttività semantica dei testi presocratici, University of Palermo
• Nov. 4th, 2009
  Parlare e comprendere in Eraclito e Parmenide, University of Palermo
• Nov. 3rd, 2009
  Il linguaggio sapienziale arcaico, University of Palermo
• Jan. 26th, 2009
  Sagen und Nennen bei Heraklit und Parmenides, University of Salzburg
• Dec. 4th, 2006
  Semantica aurale: la significazione in Eraclito, XVII Convegno Nazionale dei Dottorati in Filosofia, Reggio Emilia 

Edited volumes

• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar, K. Schlapbach (eds.) 2021: Choreonarratives. Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond. Brill: Leiden, Boston.
  Reviews: M. Bell, BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2022/2022.10.13/ , A. Kubic, Rhea Classical Reviews: rheaclassicalreview.blogspot.com/2022/08/kubic-on-gianvittorio-ungar-and-schlapbach.html
• L. Gianvittorio (ed.), 2017: Choreutika. Performing and Theorising Dance in Ancient Greece (Biblioteca dei Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 13). Fabrizio Serra Editore: Roma, Pisa.
  Reviews: K. Schlapbach, BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018.05.08/, R. Merker, Wiener Studien 131: austriaca.at/0xc1aa5576%200x00376e78.pdf; D. Perego, Drammaturgia: drammaturgia.fupress.net/recensioni/recensione2.php;

Publications under contract/in progress

• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar, Theatricality in Aeschylus, in A. Markantonatos, A. Sommerstein (eds), Brill’s Companion to Aeschylus.
• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar, Hellenising Dance in Fascist Italy. Rosalia Chladek and the Greek Theatre of Syracuse in the 1930s.

Book chapters (13)

• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar, Z. Alonso (submitted): Transfers and Transactions, in M. Briand (ed), A Cultural History of Dance, vol. 1: Antiquity. Bloomsbury: London.
• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar (submitted), Petrifying Performances: Niobe on Stage, in A. Bellia (ed), Material evidence of dance performances in the ancient world (Fabrizio Serra Editore)
• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar, Dance and Politics (submitted), in Z. Alonso-Fernández, S. Olsen (eds), Imprints of Ancient Dance: Texts, Images, Bodies, Movement (Madrid Autonoma University Press).
• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar, Danza y política (submitted), in Z. Alonso-Fernández, S. Olsen (eds), Improntas de danza antigua: textos, cuerpo, imágenes, movimiento (Madrid Autonoma University Press).
• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar 2022, Envisioning and Reenacting the Chorus in Republican Tragedy. The Cases of Naevius’ Lycurgus and Ennius’ Eumenides, in K. Schlapbach (ed.), Aspects of Roman Dance Culture, Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, 137-158.
• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar, K. Schlapbach, 2021: Introduction. Narratives in Motion, in L. Gianvittorio-Ungar, K. Schlapbach (eds.), Choreonarratives. Dancing stories in Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond. Brill: Leiden, Boston, 1–36.
• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar, 2021: Dancing Io’s Life: Hurt Body, Tragic Suffering (Prometheus Bound 561-608), in L. Gianvittorio-Ungar, K. Schlapbach (eds.), Choreonarratives. Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman antiquity and Beyond. Brill: Leiden, Boston, 129–155.
• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar 2020, Dancing the war report in Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes, in J. Grethlein, L. Huitink, A. Tagliabue (eds.), Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece: Under the Spell of Stories, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 235–251.
• L. Gianvittorio, 2017: Der Klang prophetischer Stimmen. Kassandra und die Sibylle in performance, in E. Fantino, U. Muss, K. Sier, C. Schubert (eds.), Heraklit im Kontext (Studia Praesocratica 8). De Gruyter: Berlin, New York, 343–371.
• L. Gianvittorio, 2017: Introduction. Ancient dance as a topic of research, in L. Gianvittorio (ed.), Choreutika. Performing and Theorising Dance in Ancient Greece (Biblioteca dei Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 13). Fabrizio Serra Editore: Roma, Pisa, 25–36.
• L. Gianvittorio, 2017: A dance of death. Evidence of a tragic dance of mourning, in L. Gianvittorio (ed.), Choreutika. Performing and Theorising Dance in Ancient Greece (Biblioteca dei Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 13). Fabrizio Serra Editore: Roma, Pisa, 90–118.
• L. Gianvittorio, 2016: Erzählen durch Pantomime. Zu Nonnos, Dionysiaka 19, 136-299, in G. Danek, E. Klecker, R. Merker (eds.), Trilogie: Epos, Drama, Epos. Praesens: Wien, 347–370.
• L. Gianvittorio, 2015: Anagrammi eraclitei? in O.  Álvarez Salas, E. Hülsz (eds.), El libro de Heráclito 2500 años después. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Mexico City, 213–238.

Papers in peer-reviewed journals (20)

• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar 2020: Lousy Boys and Pseudo-Homeric Giggles, Prometheus 45, 39-48.
• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar 2020: Narratives in Motion. The Art of Dancing Stories in Antiquity and Beyond (Report on an Interdisciplinary Event with Scholars and Performers), Greek and Roman Musical Studies 8.1, 174–189.
• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar 2019: Dining and re-dining with Thyestes. Embodying Seneca’s tragedy in antiquity and today, Dionysus ex machina 10, 61–72.
• L. Gianvittorio 2018: New Music and dancing prostitutes, Greek and Roman Musical Studies 6, 265–289.
• L. Gianvittorio, 2015: One deception, many lies. Frr. 301-302 Radt and Aeschylus’ Philoctetes, Wiener Studien 128, 19–26.
• L. Gianvittorio, 2014: Epicarmo dialogico. Quattro livelli di analisi (Parte 2), Hermes 142 (1), 58−78.
• L. Gianvittorio, 2013: Epicarmo dialogico. Quattro livelli di analisi (Parte 1), Hermes 141 (4), 435−449
• L. Gianvittorio, 2013: Sprechen und Verstehen bei Heraklit und Parmenides, Mnemosyne 66, 1−29.
• L. Gianvittorio, 2012: La narrazione melica nella tragedia. Modi del racconto ed etopea del narratore, Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica n.s. 101, 97−123.
• L. Gianvittorio, 2011: Erzählen als rhetorisches Handeln. Antike Theorien und Pragmatische Narratologie, Grazer Beiträge 28, 60−84.

Other publications

• L. Gianvittorio-Ungar, 2019: Seneca, theatercombinat, and embodied philology 
• L. Gianvittorio, 2017: Book presentation: “Choreutika. Performing and Theorising Dance in Ancient Greece”.  Engramma 148: Dionysus beyond borders, www.engramma.it
• L. Gianvittorio, 2016: Conference report: Greek Theatre beyond the Canon (Vienna, 13-14 November 2015): 

Translations

• L. Gianvittorio, 2008: H. Leppin, Teodosio il Grande (Profili 44). Salerno Editrice: Roma, 350 pages. Italian translation of H. Leppin, 2003: Theodosius der Große. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt.

Entries in lexica

• L. Gianvittorio, 2009: Gorgias von Leontinoi, in S. Jordan, B. Mojsisch (eds.), Philosophenlexikon. Reclam: Stuttgart, 225–226.
• L. Gianvittorio, 2009: Protagoras von Abdera, in S. Jordan, B. Mojsisch (eds.), Philosophenlexikon. Reclam: Stuttgart, 444–445.

Book reviews

• Widzisz M. A., Chronos on the Threshold. Time, Ritual, and Agency in the Oresteia (Lanham, MD and Plymouth 2012), Classical Review 64 (2), 2014, 349–351.
• Gostoli A., Margite. Omero. Introduzione, testimonianze, testo critico, traduzione e commento (Pisa, Roma 2007), Grazer Beiträge 26 (2008), 152–154.
• Cozzo A., La tribù degli antichisti. Un’etnografia ad opera di un suo membro (Roma 2006), Grazer Beiträge 28, 2011.
• Narducci E., Cicerone. La parola e la politica, Roma, Bari, 2009, Grazer Beiträge 28, 2011.

 

Databases (Laura Gianvittorio et al.)

• Antike Rhetorik: Autoren
• Antike Rhetorik: Werke
• Antike Rhetorik: Frühdrucke und Textausgaben plusfm.plus.sbg.ac.at/Haupttexte%20Rhetorik_Texte/home.php

• Winter Term 2022/2023
  Vorlesung: Antiker Tanz
• Winter Term 2018/19
  Vorlesung: Anfänge der griechischen Theatergattungen
• Summer Term 2015
  Griechische Lektüre III: Lukian über Philosophie

• Summer Term 2014
  Seminar: Tragödie im Spannungsfeld der Gattungen

• Summer Term 2014
  Erasmus teaching mobility: Paratragedia nella tradizione comica (geblockt)

• Summer Term 2013
  Vorlesung + Konversatorium: Paraphilosophia (Philosophie in der Komödie)
• Summer Term 2011
  Proseminar: Hesiod, Werke und Tage
  Repetitorium zu den Stilübungen: Griechische Grammatik mit Fokus auf Morphologie
• Winter Term 2010/11
  Proseminar: Aristophanes Frösche und die Rezeption der Tragödie
  Ringvorlesung: Altertumswissenschaften
• Summer Term 2010
  Proseminar: Sophokles, Antigone
• Winter Term 2009/10
  Proseminar: Xenophanes und die archaische sophia
• Summer Term 2009
  Extracurriculare Lehrveranstaltung: Literarische/archäologische Romreise

• Winter Term 2011/12
  Graecum: Griechische Sprache und Grammatik
  Übung: Platon, Ion
• Summer Term 2012
  Übung: Aristoteles, Poetik

• Winter Term 2010/11
  Erasmus teaching mobility: La nascita del linguaggio filosofico (geblockt)
• Summer Term 2007
  Extracurriculare Lehrveranstaltung: Greco per studenti di filosofia

• Oct. 2021 - Jun. 2022
  Co-supervision of doctoral thesis on the Telephus myth
• Summer Term 2019
  Co-supervision of master thesis on Tissaphernes
• Winter Term 2014/15
  Evaluation of doctoral thesis on Pindar